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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Big, The Boring and The Ugly

How The Days of Trophy Homes May Be Numbered

Remember how all through recorded history, women AND men liked to dress up in fur garments? Then back in the 1970s, certain people developed the odd notion of not liking to hurt what is now trendily known as “sentient beings.” These folks took offense to animals being held in cages to get ‘em sleek and furry enough to kill ‘em and skin ‘em and make jackets out of ‘em. These protesting freakazoids started throwing red paint – and not even latex paint, mind you; it was oil-based! -- on fur coat wearers. And remember what happened? (And if you're too young to remember, I'll tell you.) Although many people thought that spewing paint on anyone was rude in the extreme, a paradigm shift arrived, seemingly overnight. More people started to believe…

Holly Nadler

10:10 am on Friday, September 7, 2012

Michael, whatever you write, it reminds me of why you're one of my best friends! . . . has anyone gotten around to discussing the obscenely large carbon footprint emitted by gigundus houses? You know who leaves the smallest carbon footprint? A homeless person! So the meanest right-wingy-est of our citizenry has to stop yelling at them, "Get a job!"   more ›

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