Treatment of Animals: Halloween Edition

In light of the recent discussion of the modern-day treatment of animals. I offer you all this link...

Now, does this qualify as mistreatment or torture? Are these poor animals being exploited for our human enjoyment? Who really cares?

Look how cutesy-wootsy they are!

City of Brotherly Love

Well folks, Friday I'm off to Philadelphia for a GeoscienceWorld meeting. Won't have much free time, but I do hope to take in some sites. The trip will hopefully be more stimulating than my trip to Salt Lake City last year.... %as cool as Mormon Square was.%

I hear Philadelphia is the only city where you can take a train directly from the aiport to the downtown convention center. So, hopefully transportation will be stress free. Here is the hotel I will be staying at.

The daughter of a work collegue of mine, and her husband, will be showing me the cool shiznit that apparently isn't that far from where I will be staying. I will take some pictures and hopefully get around to posting them here.

In the meantime, any advice for this traveler? I already have my 3 oz. toiletries and my 1 quart-size bag an mandated by the TSA.

Random post ad-on.... In case the brothers of Philly don't have much love for me and end my existence, I offer you all a parting gift....Corky and the Juice Pigs....enjoy!

Stewart-Colbert '08? No way, says comedian

I'm crying a little inside...

‘Daily Show’ host says campaign t-shirts ‘a real sign of how sad people are’
The Associated Press

NEW YORK - Those people wearing "Stewart/Colbert '08" T-shirts can stop hoping — Comedy Central's fake news stars have no intention of making a run for the White House.

Jon Stewart said the T-shirts promoting him and Stephen Colbert "are a real sign of how sad people are" with the state of affairs in the country.

"Nothing says 'I am ashamed of you my government' more than 'Stewart/Colbert '08,' Stewart told an audience Sunday at the New Yorker Festival. He was interviewed by the magazine's editor, David Remnick.

Stewart, who recently hosted Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on "The Daily Show," said he's been trying to get top Bush administration officials to appear. "We have requests in there to everyone including Barney," Stewart said. "Only Barney replies." Barney is the president's Scottish terrier.

Stewart scoffed at suggestions that some people actually get their news from "The Daily Show."
"There's no way you could get the news from us," he said. "I've seen the show. It couldn't happen."

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