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best friends

Posted in general, tagged on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

 Hi, all. My friend Jackie is walking for Best Friends no-kill animal sanctuary, as part of Oprah’s Live Your Best Life Walk.  Please contribute what you can here. Thanks from me and the puppies and kitties and bunnies and the burros (!) and all the rest of ‘em.

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fall food

Posted in recipes, tagged , , , on October 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’m going to apologize for this once and once only: It is autumn. I live way north. The sun goes down very early now and will soon go down disgustingly early, so my dinnertime photos for the next several (that sounds like a lot—we’ll see) months will be artificially lit. I will do my best. [...]

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takin’ cruelty news mainstream

Posted in general, tagged on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

So that I’m not completely trapped in my Lefty news bubble, I make sure I check out at least Yahoo! News every day. Today something caught my eye—yes, something besides the L.A./Valley fires and Swine Flu(!). In among the “most e-mailed” stories was this headline: Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery Oh, [...]

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chicago, part 3: the food!

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , , , on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Just a word before I get into my dinin’ out over a week in Cheese-n-bratland. I visited a friend’s place on the North Side and saw this on the front door of his building. (OK, it was the wrong building—he lived next door—but we thought it was his building so while we waited for him [...]

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are you kidding me?

Posted in general, tagged on April 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Apparently living under the belief that the human-swine-bird flu strain that’s sweepin’ the globe travels by collective unconscious or some other such crap, Egypt has decided to slaughter all its pigs. Some farmers have refused to cooperate, and Health Ministry workers have thus far left without carrying out orders in those cases. By the way, there [...]

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for the kitties

Posted in general, tagged , on March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Just an excuse to post a picture of Mädchen using my wrist-rest as a pillow. (If I don’t offer a pillow she ends up falling asleep on the Tab or Caps Lock key.) Actually, there’s a pretty big fight going on over at Huffington Post, over a story on whether it’s safe to feed dogs and [...]

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thanks, boca

Posted in general, tagged , on March 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I saw on Compassion Over Killing that the latest egg-ridding campaign has coaxed Boca into making all their products egg-free by the end of the year. Now if they could figure out how to get rid of that pesky whey… And LightLife and Morningstar Farms have agreed to further reduce their egg use in 2009. For LightLife that means five [...]

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maybe it’s you, not him

Posted in general, tagged on March 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over the past couple of days I’ve read probably a dozen stories about Santino, the rock-mining chimp. They all seem to stem from this AP article about Mathias Osvath’s report, about how Santino calmly collects rocks from his enclosure, sometimes finding soft parts of his concrete habitat to mine new ones, then much later hurls them at [...]

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sea kittens!

Posted in general, tagged on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So I’ve had my grumblings over PETA (as have many of us), but they done made me giggle today. The above banner is from their sea kittens campaign to make over the fish image. You can go on the site and dress up different fish in kitten (or biker) costumes—I kinda wish there were more kitten costume choices [...]

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another video i won’t watch

Posted in general, tagged on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just saw this story on The Raw Story and was taken aback, which is rare. (And as with all the other animal abuse videos, I don’t think watching it is going to help me.) Rhinestones on sunglasses and crappy economic policies aren’t the only things that came back from the 80s. Apparently so has the need to fight [...]

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