This is no weirder than wearing wool or angora or cashere, except I'm sure your dog has a much better life than most large scale sheep (or rabbit or goat) operations.

I sure would love to see what it looks like NOW.

Ow! My eyes hurt from rolling them so hard.

TOES, I said. Toes. :P

Ahhh, salmonella. How relaxing. I wonder if she's going to branch out to having dogs lick peanut butter off people's toes?

The video clearly shows him developing his own film.

These past several months I have been waiting for our business to curmble, but, although things have slowed down a bit, business has been chugging along. We've been really trying to focus on chiseling away our debt so that if times get rough we won't owe too much. My big plan for getting through this is to reduce our debt, keep less inventory on hand, cut bills (I just switched to Vonage this afternoon, for example, at a savings of nearly $100 a month over my current phone plan and cut out all extra channels on our satellite for another savings of $25 a month), get out of risky investments (even money market accounts aren't safe right now, apparently), sock away a few bucks here and there when I can, and just generally try to be more frugal NOW so that it will be less traumatic (hopefully) if the you-know-what hits the fan. Honestly, I'm trying to do everything I really SHOULD have been doing all along. It shouldn't take something this drastic to make us be less wasteful and frivolous with our money. I don't know what the future holds, but I'm trying not to panic. I think the worst thing we can do is panic. If we are frugal, but don't stop spending completely, I think that we (the little people) can get through this.

There is a lovely album by Dan Zanes that is entirely made up of historic sea music. And it's called...Sea Music. I highly recommend it (and every other album he's done, too!): http://www.danzanes.com/seamusic/seamusic.shtml

To the person who said there is no middle class in America, that is preposterous. I keep hearing this and yet everywhere I look is the middle class. I am willing to bet YOU are middle class. I seriously doubt many people at poverty level are hanging out browsing Neatorama. I don't get where this idea of no middle class comes from. Look around you.

I am a conservative who wants Obama to win so the liberals will just shut up already and we can get back to being a STRONG country instead of one filled with a bunch of whiny, disrespectful brats.

If you really care about the environment please consider eliminating animal products from your diet. It may be the single most important thing we can do for the planet's health.

Aw! Animals are so cute. I'm always captivated at how animals have their own personalities and they get curious and playful just like us. They also feel fear and pain and sadness just like us, which is why everyone should go veg. ;)

Most of the people I know who are wealthy have worked their asses off and taken big risks to get there. Sorry that hard work and learned skills pay off. Are we supposed to feel guilty about this, too?

My husband begins work at 4:30 AM most mornings and doesn't stop till at least 6:00 PM (but often later). He works six days a week most weeks. And NOT at golf! His hands get dirty every day. Do you know how annoying it is when we sneak away for an afternoon to catch a movie once in a while and someone who has SETTLED for a minimum wage job makes a snide comment about how "it must be nice"? Or when our friends who blow money on cigarettes and beer and stupid shit that they don't need make us out to be big spenders because we saved up for a used boat that we got for a steal at $5,000. "It must be nice." Yes, being smart with our money IS nice! You should try it.

I wish people would stop coddling people as if they are woerthless human beings who won't get anywhere in life unless you hold their hand and help them along. When did that ever make strong people? Nearly EVERYONE can succeed if they just try harder and smarter. Instead of making excuses for people maybe we should spend more time encouraging them to learn from the people who HAVE succeeded instead of encouraging them to have contempt for those people.

Nice gesture, but what would really be something is if the government stopped pushing the agenda of the HUGE empire that values money over our health and REALLY made efforts to improve our health. But, then there'd be no more cheese. No more hydrogenated oils. No more dirty, artery clogging meat. And as a result, wayyy less disease. I don't see what it matters if the same ice cream and fried cheese that causes cancer (yes, it's true, ask any nutritional researcher who is not taking money from the dairy industry...the fact has been proven beyond any doubt) that you can get at a fast food place can also be purchased at a sit-down restaurant.

What a noble and respectable use for the two lives that were taken there. Makes me proud to be human.

Flesh is flesh. At least rats (unlike cows) aren't being raised to ridiculous numbers, harming/depleting our water and food supplies, destroying the land on which they feed and crap, and adding to the world's environmental problems on a scale that blows away any problems we have from auto emissions and plastic.