Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
Seventy-five-year-old Mona Shaw is destined to become immortalized as an American folk hero: After a week of getting jerked around by a cable service provider, Mona had enough, according to the Washington Post story Taking a Whack Against Comcast: The insulting idea that, as Shaw puts it, “they thought just because we’re old enough to […]
* This headline was enough to make me sit up straight as I lazily sipped my coffee this morning: Iraqis to Pay China $100 Million for Weapons for Police Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the […]
A communist one, apparently. Those heathens have little tolerance for this kind of nonsense, according to this morning’s Associated Press story, China Bans Bra, Underwear, Sex Toy Ads The notice by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, stated: Illegal ‘sexual medication’ advertisements and other harmful ads pose a grave threat to society. They […]
My latest guilty pleasure is the silly and immensely entertaining animal pictures at I Can Has Cheezburger? I enjoy these pictures so much, I’ve started posting our favorites at Trouts Farm. You can go to the “About Us” section of the I Can Has Cheezburger site for an explanation of this phenomenon. The Cat Macros […]
For most of us, it begins and ends with a headline. But for family, this is only the beginning of a long nightmare. Last year in the United States, there were over ten million reported traffic accidents resulting in 2,699,000 injuries and 43,510 deaths, making it easy to tune out headlines like: “Crash Injures Newburg […]