hot pants college II

"This isn't E.M. Forster!"


“ I wear some pretty thick skin during our work with dogs, but I can’t shake my minds-eye image of a little black dog splashing frantically in bloody water … screaming in pain and terror … brown eyes saucer wide and tiny black white-toed feet clawing at anything, desperate to get a hold. This death did not come quickly. The rescuer in me keeps trying to think of a way to go back in time and somehow stop this torture and pull the little dog to safety. I think I’ll be looking for ways to pull that dog out for the rest of my life. Michael Vick’s unpaid dues: Why dog advocates aren’t moving on

Buying snow boots for kiddo (for Iowa winter) is considered extraneous spending by my now miserly husband.

there is no good reason to stay up late.



“ Szczupider, who had been a volunteer at the center, told me: “Her presence, and loss, was palpable, and resonated throughout the group. The management at Sanaga-Yong opted to let Dorothy’s chimpanzee family witness her burial, so that perhaps they would understand, in their own capacity, that Dorothy would not return. Some chimps displayed aggression while others barked in frustration, but perhaps the most stunning reaction was a recurring, almost tangible silence. If one knows chimpanzees, then one knows that [they] are not [usually] silent creatures. The Story Behind National Geographic’s Viral Chimp Funeral Photo


“ It’s time we have a more intelligent and reasonable discussion about the state of animal agriculture. And it’s time that vegetarian advocates and omnivores who simply want animals and the environment treated with basic dignity insist that we focus our national discussion of food on a challenge we all can agree about: transforming the factory farms that now produce 99 out every 100 farmed animals in America. Aaron Gross: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Controversial New Book, Eating Animals


Often times I have that Elvis Costello song, Alison, playing in my head. Is that narcissistic?

“ The human cost of factory farming — both the compromised welfare of slaughterhouse workers and, even more, the environmental effects of the mass production of animals — is staggering. Foer details the copious amounts of pig shit sprayed into the air that result in great spikes in human respiratory ailments, the development of new bacterial strains due to overuse of antibiotics on farmed animals, and the origins of the swine flu epidemic, whose story has gripped the nation, in factory farms. Natalie Portman: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan


“ Denzel Washington cured me forever of thinking that there is any amount of money or anything that could ever, ever make it okay to be abused. The script supervisor on that movie said it’s like watching somebody kick a puppy. He was so vile. And after that, I just would never endure it again. Bronson Pinchot | DVD | The A.V. Club
“ The steepest drop has occurred during the past year, as Congress and the Obama administration have taken steps to control heat-trapping emissions for the first time and international negotiations for a new treaty to slow global warming have been under way. At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change – from melting ice caps to the world’s oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer. Steep Decline In Americans’ Belief In Global Warming

doing waaaay too much facebook posting. can’t stop!