Addicted to Placebos

After a couple of months of trying to resist, I bought myself a really neat solar system picture yesterday. It just makes me smile with the robots and the spaceships and the green glitter. And I had a spare wall in my computer room which is where my nerdiness all hangs out.
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Looking for a quick way to drop 115 bucks and induce people to ask repeatedly, “You paid what for those? Seriously?”
Here ya go…
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But hey - they’re sustainable.
Made in Brazil with natural tanning methods, kissed by vegan tribesmen before lovingly placed in a recycled cardboard box. Seems to me that the [...]

…comes all of the freakin’ babies.
Spare me.  Please.
It’s bad enough that I have to try to hide my indifference or even revulsion when a coworker shoves a picture of a red, crusty, hours-old infant under my nose.  But now, I have to deal with this crap in my online havens.  And I’m pissed.
When I switched [...]

This is Gidget.

It’s kind of hard to tell from this photo but Gidget has three legs.  She lost the right front leg at the age of four months after she was thrown by a four-year-old.  The bones were shattered so badly that there was no choice but to amputate.  When she arrived at the shelter, [...]

Video appears to show Marine abusing puppy - CNN.com
This was how my day started.  Good Morning America covered this story and showed the video.  Thankfully, they stopped the picture but they didn’t cut the sound of the terrified puppy after this psychopathic bastard threw him.  It literally made me cry and haunted me all [...]

Sorry - there’s just no other way to put it.  
Look, I’m all about freedom of choice.  I know the Green Party wants their voice to be heard.  But when you run a candidate who will pull votes but has no chance of winning, the only thing you accomplish is looking like a spoiled brat [...]

By the time I get home from work, I’ve generally had it with people. I’m content to close the door on the world, touch base with online friends, maybe blog a bit. This is good.
Tonight, my Mom called to see if I wanted to grab Chinese. This sounded a lot better than [...]