Archive for October, 2009

Burnt Bunnies Heat Homes

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Stockholm's homes are heated with bunny biofuel. Elmer Fudd must be fueling around in the wabbit patch. Swedish hunters kill thousands of pesky rabbits, that are said to be destroying the capital's parks. The bunny bodies are frozen, ground and mixed with wood chips, peat or waste, then incinerated to ...

Richard Gere Walking the Dog on the Red Carpet

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Hachiko: A Dog's Story is a new movie based on a true story about a devoted dog that waited at the Shibuya train station every day for his owner for years after the man had died. The dog died at the train station in 1935. This remake of the 1987 ...

Orangutan and Bluetick Coonhound, Best Friends

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Suryia, an Orangutan, and Roscoe, a Bluetick Coonhound, are best friends, living at a preserve for endangered animals in South Carolina. They met a couple of years ago when Roscoe, looking thin and hungry, followed staff home to The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in Myrtle Beach. ...

Bedtime Prayer

Monday, October 12th, 2009

A friend from Costa Rica forwarded this email to me. It's too good not to share! Dear Lord: Thank you for bringing me to Timmy's house and not to Michael Vick's -- AMEN!