Originally posted by issendai at WARNING: Purina pet food has started making pets ill

My coworker John told me that his cat was seriously ill--throwing up, lethargic, refusing food, dropping weight. The previously healthy 6-year-old, 15-pound cat had lost a third of her body weight over the last few months. The vet couldn't find anything wrong with her. ( Read more... )

A very sad story and a serious warning to avoid a particular, popular dog toy:  http://www.thechaistory.blogspot.com/

The company has (finally) responded to concerns - but without mentioning the particular problems with the product.  This link includes a specific product listing:  http://www.fourpaws.com/news/press-room/four-paws-rough-rugged-pimple ( Read more... )

In the wake of the recent California Supreme Court decision legalizing same sex marriage in that state, anti-gay organizations have mobilized to work towards putting a constitutional amendment prohibiting same sex marriage on the next ballot. There is talk of dusting off the proposed federal amendment ( Read more... )

insomnia (Mark Kraft, LJ's erstwhile business manager from the days when it was brad's baby) has written a post I encourage you all to read, and introduced a new community: ljunitedThe community aims to influence selection of LJ Advisory Board members - bringing in both the Russian and "Everything other than Russian" voices to hopefully influence SUP in a way that is ( Read more... )

So a good thing came out of all this ...

vito-excalibur's Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program.

And the Y Chromosome ReservesThis is about real life behavior - something we can all do, anytime, anywhere. The more of us, the better. In other words, be the change you want to see in the world - and this is an excellent way to put that sentiment into ( Read more... )

Why is it that no one seems to use the phrase(s) "beg the question / begging the question" accurately anymore? It does NOT mean that such-and-such a remark strongly inspires the asking of such-and-such a question - and that is how I've seen it used multiple times in this past week alone, by educated people one assumes should know better. In fact ( Read more... )

Pretty Bird Woman House, the women's shelter destroyed by arson which I've posted about recently, needs to make $35,000 by midnight tonight (by December first) - they now have over $32,000 ... ultimately, the charity needs to raise $70,000 by the end of January in order to move into a new shelter. Please consider donating!

Facebook privacy meltdown.
" ... Facebook originally planned to give its users the ability to permanently opt out of having their private purchases made public on Facebook. Facebook evidently removed that option just before launching the new privacy-invading feature. Facebook users who are aware that their private purchases on other websites are ( Read more... )

I've posted before about Pretty Bird Woman House, a women's shelter and education program on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota, and they need help now.


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Shelfari spam: "basically social networking rapists"

Article links to 51 (yes, 51) blog and journal posts from furious victims of the Shelfari spam scam.

If you haven't heard of Shelfari, be warned that you may get spam invitations in your inbox if any of your friends have registered with the service.

Per Jesse Wegman of the New York Observer: ( Read more... )