For once, some politicians are not PIG-headed enough!

In case you haven't been following this heart-rending saga, and it is inconceivable to me that you haven't, and trust me my heart is rarely rent by anything hitting a newspaper, magazine or the Net, especially but not limited to third-world celebrity adoptions, record-breaking box office proceeds enriching new Scientology starlings, the latest outrageous outfit served up by Lady Gag-me, sports figures actually profiting from advances in twentieth century chemical science, and so forth, this week the one meaningful event in my book has been the refusal to reconsider a cruel separation of an autistic boy and his pot-bellied pig pet Loopey by a feckless Fayetteville, North Carolina, City Council.

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I expressed my dismay to the Fayetteville City Council and you too can post a comment to them here. There is also a petition page here although it is not clear to whom exactly the petition is addressed.


On its website, Fayetteville touts itself as The All-America (sic) City. Sad.

They paved paradise...

In a letter submitted earlier this year to The Desert Sun, San Lorenzo Road in Palm Springs Will Lose its Charm When Widened, I learned that the street I was pretty much raised on by my grandparents is destined to become a superhighway.

You can read the City Council Report here

The memory of the way gravel felt underneath my little feet will soon give way to a street built for the 20th century when the automobile was king. And this in the name of a Federal "Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality" grant. Someone has discerned tremendous congestion on the road as depicted in the recent photo above. Can you? Sad.

THE WILD TRUTH ABOUT THE SNOW LEOPARD ICON

THIS IS REALLY... UH... BLOOD CURDLING.... (click to see the story)