Pro Hot Dog Eating

Much as I love shows like Man vs Food, I find eating contests particularly gross. It's like watching a train wreck. It's like pie eating contests at Fairs gone wild. Here's an article about hot-dog eating.

Drunken, disorderly conducted Sorority Girls. Those Miami students know how to party!

It's not just the Frats that are becoming bastions of offensive, drunken behavior. It's Sororities at Miami Uni, too!

I've never heard of anyone saying a university or college was "devalued" because of the behavior of its Greek organizations, though. ONLY with reference to a SORORITY. Not that I'm condoning these girls' behavior, but honestly, if it's good for the goose.... you know the saying. Clean up the Frats as well, people. They're homebase for rape and sexual abuse of young women.

Plague Squirrels in LA...should we rewrite "Plague Dogs"?

Plague-ridden ground squirrels, chipmunks, and rodents abound in campgrounds and in the LA area. Who knew? Really?  There've been recent cases of plague caught by campers in the area. Luckily this time they shut the campground down for 10 days while they cleared up the problem-which isn't so much the animals, as it is the fleas the poor little woodland creatures are carrying. And who wants that? Flea dip them all!

Water wells in LA closing at increasing rate due to 1950-60s pollution

OMG. I had no idea there were such deep problems (no pun intended) with the underground water supply beneath the San Fernando Valley. This is more than worrisome. Not only that but the implications of that unsustainable resource-groundwater-eventually being used up means that in a not-too-distant future, LA is going to be hell on earth when it comes to water availability.

Musings on July 4 on Hathor Legacy-a must read

Awesome post on Hathor Legacy about today's 4rth of July. It didn't mean freedom for everyone, not by a long-shot. And not for many years.