Archive for July, 2006

No war required!

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Today I took the free Sunday tour of the Piedmont Biofuels Co-op, a really great place! Part of it is Piedmont Biofuels Industrial, where they are building a huge factory that will eventually produce biodiesel on a larger scale. The other part of the Co-op is the Piedmont Biofuels Research Center, where sustainable agriculturists, environmental [...]

George W. Bush cuts support for suicide prevention

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Chalk one more atrocity up to his long list.  As though he needed to find yet another way to shortchange young people in America, he’s cutting the funding for the national 1.800.SUICIDE hotline, which helps thousands of teen callers each year, the majority of them gay. Well, we already know he hates gay people.

I feel like Halle Berry

Friday, July 28th, 2006

For some reason, I can’t rate movies anymore on Netflix. When I tried to e-mail customer service about it, I got a message that read, “That feature isn’t available to you. You need to speak to the primary account holder about that.” I guess the primary account holder must be Clinton. Does anyone believe me [...]

Kill your television (and everyone else’s)

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

How? Get your own TV-B-Gone device.
It’s time to THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX.

Your vote counts

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I hope everyone who is 1) not registered to vote, 2) registered but needs to update their address, or 3) not sure whether they’re registered, will take 5 minutes out of their day and get themselves registered. It’s as easy as filling out an online form, printing it and mailing it! Your vote does count, [...]

4th of July fun at the fabulous Four Paws Kingdom (& the possible cosmic forces in Clinton’s pants?)

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Charlie the dog, my friend Carol, her son Josiah (age 4.85 years) and I didn’t know what to expect when we set off in the car last Saturday morning for Rutherfordton, North Carolina, a very small town about 4 hours east of Durham where the Four Paws Kingdom Campground is located. The Four Paws Kingdom [...]