I'm sure you've all seen a zillion or more "spay your dog or cat" adverts and PSAs. Most of those focus on pet overpopulation and the fact that millions of adorable kitties are killed annually in shelters and rescues. Some rescue, right? But you can only find homes for so many cats before every one of us becomes a hoarder. This is a totally valid ( Read more... )

FINALLY, the FAA has told airlines to stop being dumb and let people use ebooks and video players on planes because they will not somehow randomly make planes crash.

Somebody in their infinite effing wisdom decided it would be appropriate to drop a box of kittens in our parking lot today over lunch. So now I have 3 sorry looking little things with diarrhea, upper respiratory infections, and only a rough guess of age. Bold move, ditching them during the day instead of early morning before anybody's here. I guess ( Read more... )

Ganked from popehat.com (ie, nothing below this line was authored by me!)

Everyone who's been through high school literature likes to talk about Emmanuel Goldstein when it's a member of their own cultural tribe that's being persecuted, but it's a lot harder to note that the person being vilified by the combined mechanism of the state, the media, ( Read more... )

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From Not Always Right

Fast Food, Restaurant | Manchester, England, UK | Bigotry, Geeks Rule, Wild & Unruly
(A con is going on nearby, and the fast food joint is full of people in cosplay. A rather attractive woman-dressed as a cheerleader with a pink chainsaw-leaves the building with her friends. They are whistled at by two rowdy customers entering.)

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For cantaloupe to start attacking people. Listeria again this year. I'd be much more heartbroken if it was watermelon, I admit, but still... I understand some of you folks actually like cantaloupe, so figured I should pass on the warning.

Last August, it was salmonella.

2011 was listeria, and an outbreak that took months to trace and sickened

It is, I suppose, possible that I have posted this before, but I can't recall having done so, so here you are.

From The Reason Stick:
The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense

Just found this comic today, have read the current story (still in progress) and am working on the archived stories. The current story, Inkbeast, starts off as a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but takes a quick jog off the expected path fairly early. Quite enjoying the brainmeats of Sammy Montoya so far, especially Departed (one of the ( Read more... )

The anti-anti-vaccine movement :)

Get your selves and your kids vaccinated people. Dying of preventable diseases is just dumb, and condemning your children to die of a preventable disease is despicable and unforgivable.