Hey--Brother, Truckers!

This is one of the crappiest articles I've seen anywhere.

Don't get me wrong: I'm horrified by the notion of people leaving their pets to die or to fend for themselves when their owners are foreclosed out of their homes. Obviously that's horrible and completely not the way to do things.

But to the people who are saying things like this?

Some critics say the pet owners have already proved they are irresponsible by buying houses they could not afford or mortgages they did not bother to understand.

I have just two words to say to those people; the second is "you" and the first rhymes with "truck". Who the hell are they to imply that because someone fell on hard times, that means they're somehow "irresponsible"?? Those are the people who I'd like to see knocked off their own personal pedestal, right out of their comfortable little lives, into hard times, and see how long THEY'D last with their narrowminded, judgemental attitudes.

But of course, that would never happen to "responsible" people like themselves; apparently, "responsible" people only have GOOD luck.

The Only Thing Dumber

...than reading the comments section of a politically-oriented or otherwise-controversial news story/news blog??

Is reading the comments section of a Perez Hilton item.

Because G-d knows Amy Winehouse might not ever, even accidentally, be RIGHT about something.

(Okay, yeah; it's Amy Winehouse. And yeah, it's self-justifying. But it also happens to be FACTUAL; in fact, back when I was in rehab, they gave us an immense amount of information re: the physical risks, long-term and short-term, of various drugs. By far the most destructive long-term effects were caused by alcohol--in fact, I remember thinking "Damn, it's a good thing I don't like to drink!" So for people to just jump all over it like they know what they're talking about...urgh.)