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Archive for October, 2011
Afghan hound costume
Posted in Absolute Piffle on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rick Perry likes maple syrup
Posted in Absolute Piffle on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Source. You’ve seen most of this already. Skip over to about 8 minutes into the video, and you’ll see that Rick Perry really, really likes maple syrup. Either that or he thought it was whiskey. Or he was really giddy that he had some advance knowledge that Herman Cain was about to have a sexual [...]
Werewolves of London– Ah-oooo!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Another Halloween tradition! Source.
The History of the Devil (Halloween tradition!)
Posted in history, tagged History of the Devil on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As is my customary Halloween tradition, here is the much beloved “History of the Devil” documentary: Source. Part II
Wolves set to recolonize all of Germany
Posted in wild dogs, wildlife, wolves, tagged European wolf, German wolf on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From The Telegraph: One hundred years since hunting nearly wiped wolves out in Germany, they are moving out from their last bastion in the forests on the Polish border. While 11 years ago there was one pack, there are now 12, and the return of the wolf to all of Germany, said Professor Beata Jessel, [...]
If we give apes full constitutional rights
Posted in Absolute Piffle, animal welfare, tagged chimp with gun, monkey with gun on October 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
They will have the right to bear arms. This is what happens when you give a chimp a gun: Source. (From Rise of the Planet of the Apes.)
How the Dog Became the Dog
Posted in dog domestication, great books, tagged dog domestication, How the Dog Became the Dog, Mark Derr on October 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
It’s not often that a book causes you to stop and think. It’s even rarer for a book to make you question many of the long-held beliefs you may have developed over the years. When I first started on this blogging project, I accepted two ideas as essentially true: 1. Dogs were derived from East [...]
PETA abuses the 13th Amendment
Posted in animal welfare, tagged 13th Amendment, Orca, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA on October 29, 2011 | 76 Comments »
From the LA Times blogs: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans Wednesday to sue Sea World for allegedly violating the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — which bans slavery — by keeping orcas at parks in San Diego and Orlando, Fla., organization officials said Tuesday. The lawsuit, set to be filed in [...]
Texas concealed weapon permit class has restrictions
Posted in Absolute Piffle on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Source. The last 20 seconds or so has the restrictions. I guess I can’t take the class.
Constructive versus Destructive
Posted in deep thought on October 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
“The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you’ve cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society.” – Steve Jobs to Rupert “Dirty Digger” Murdoch. I must make a little confession: I own not a single Apple product. (No eye-phone or [...]





