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Common theme: Fewer children and more animals means more human-like treatment: > Ms. Harris is a D.J. on DogCatRadio.com, a new Internet radio station for pets. Now dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots can keep the anxiety, the loneliness, the restlessness at bay while their owners are out. It

Obvious case of poaching: > It looked like a crime scene, but no charges will be filed after Wayne Goldsberry killed a buck with his bare hands in his daughter's bedroom. > The engagement lasted an exhausting 40 minutes, but Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer that

The LA Times ran a piece about the religious right's boycott of all sorts of American goods. The story has a smarmy edge to it, but it raises good questions: Will the RR boycott everything? Are boycotts effective? Throughout the lengthy article, though, is one glaring omission: Is

. . . Not here. There are some things you don't do, even for money: > A Catholic school in Wisconsin has canceled an "American Girl" fashion show because the company that makes the dolls gives money to a pro-abortion group. > St. Luke School in Brookfield hoped to

Different fare at the LA Times this morning [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-barash2nov02,0,5639947.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions] . The gist: sexual procreation helps us beat disease. Excerpts: > Lots of living things reproduce by parthenogenesis (the development of unfertilized eggs) or simply by sending out shoots or

Ruth Marcus at WaPo laments the lack of diversity on the Supreme Court [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103101385.html] : > [I]magine an all-male, all-white Supreme Court. No president looking at a high court vacancy would consider that acceptable in this day and age,

I'm working on the return to standard time, but for now, the date/time stamp on posts will one hour ahead of the actual post time.

The current Forbes cover story [http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/1114/128_print.html] takes on the blogosphere. In a nutshell: Many bloggers act anonymously and deceitfully, without disclosing all facts, at times defaming individuals. All of it is true, though Forbes fails to mention that most blogs don&

Hey, we gotta be grateful for our medievalism however we can get it: > An artist has used scrap cars to create replicas of gargoyles that once adorned a famous Dorset abbey. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/4388386.stm].

Although it has detractors, for me, the bi-annual clock game is always a good thing, both in the fall and in the spring. In the spring, I enjoy the extra hour of daylight, and in the fall, I enjoy that extra hour of time. Back in college, I remember objecting