Last December, my sister and I decided to send a holiday package to a random soldier using AnySoldier.com. We looked through some listings and eliminated any obvious freeps or those deluded into bragging about being 'liberators'. Most of them seemed like nice kids and they didn't want much. We picked out a nice young woman from Nebraska who wanted Christmas candy for her unit. She didn't seem like a blood 'n guts type and seemed normal. We loaded up a big box with candy, snacks, books and s...

Long story, but I'm pissed. Six months ago, I adopted a puppy mill rescue. He's a black and tan Pomeranian and he came to me with a host of mental and health issues. His health issues have been and are being addressed - his teeth were broken from trying to chew through his cage at the mill so they were pulled, and his hind legs were so weak from lack of exercise he would simply topple over when walking. He's building up strength and can now do a slow trot in the yard. He has a number of dig...

I just received the most appalling fund raising letter from a church in Oklahoma (I have NO idea how I got on their list - it's only addressed to 'dear friend'). They enclosed something they call a Jesus Prayer Rug which is actually a printed piece of paper with Jesus and fringe. Apparently all I have to do is sleep with it and I'll be rich, rich, rich! Here are the instructions: "The next 24 hours are crucial to you. Timing is important to God. After you kneel on this prayer rug, or place...

My brother-in-law's birthday is next week, and we're having a big family get-together for it (we're all Democrats). I wanted to do something fun for it, so I printed a bunch of photos of Bush - disgusting - then made drawings from them to get a sense of scale of his features. Then I made a pinata of him from my drawings, painted it, and it looks just like him. For fun I embedded a sound chip in it so every time it's whacked his head makes a whooping monkey sound. I was going to leave it em...