In Which I Drug My Dog

Our beloved Mrs. Wigglebottom is severely limping.  Again.  Though it’s been a long time.  As you may recall, she’s got football knee and we’re trying to limp her along, so to speak, as long as possible, because, once the tendon tears completely, she’s got to have surgery of some sort, and the vet and I [...]

Potential for Abuse? Potential?

I don’t know how I missed this, but thanks to KAG over at Knoxville Talks, I’ve learned of the “success” of the latest efforts to weed out illegal immigrants from our state.
Five months after Tennessee’s “Illegal Alien Employment Act” became law and threatened to penalize business owners found more than once to have knowingly employed [...]

See? Snidley

Tiny Pasture points out that Hobbs’s Snidley video never was up at the TNGOP website, so calls for him to remove it from there are in vain.
See, it’s up at YouTube’s website on the TNGOP channel.
Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
God, I love this.
It’s like the TNGOP hired a petulant angry twelve [...]

The Future is Now

Via Radley Balko, we learn that a woman in Mississippi has been convicted of manslaughter because she did drugs and gave birth to a stillborn baby.
Twelve years.
What if you’re in a car accident in Mississippi, your fault, and you give birth to a stillborn baby?
Are they going to try those women for manslaughter?
Flea has a [...]

Bird Brain

By way of Archcrone, I bring you the story of a parrot who managed to get himself back home because he knew his address!
I have to admit, I’m kind of freaked out by birds, especially big parrots, because they seem like they might claw you or peck your eyes out, but my mom once had [...]

Just Calling to Tell Me About Me

Before I start the meat of my story, can I just tell you that, when I was out walking the dog, we came upon some dead thing and she tried to make like she just wanted to sniff it, when clearly she wanted to taste it and I was all like “I wasn’t born yesterday, [...]