Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
I was wrong about there not being a way for kids in our neighborhood to walk to Lee Elementary. And I was wrong about having explored all interconnecting paths between neighborhoods. The other day I saw a woman and a young girl step into the mowed field I use to cross into the neighborhood north […]
The good news is that there has been a sharp drop in US deaths in Iraq. As of Tuesday, the Pentagon reported 28 U.S. military deaths in October. That’s an average of about 1.2 deaths a day. The toll on U.S troops hasn’t been this low since March 2006, when 31 soldiers died – an […]
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 […]