Prayers for Mayor Stubbs!!
Also, if it weren’t Alaska, I’d totally move here. I’d love to live in a town with a cat as mayor. 🙂
Links
40 maps that explain the world
Visualizing everything from the spread of religion to the most racially tolerant countries to the world’s writing systems.
This is one of the most fascinating things I’ve seen in a long time, and I could probably spend hours on it, if I include the linked explanations and analyses. There are quite a few surprises in here, too! The world is such an incredible place, in all sorts of ways.
Meet Bob: Street cat, lifesaver, book phenom
The once-stray cat helped a London heroin addict turn his life around and inspired an international bestseller.
For anyone who thinks cats don’t make amazing companions…
Cage-Free Viewing
I understand that zoos and aquariums bring animals to people who might otherwise never see them. But we live on a continent teeming with wildlife, at least in some places. Many of our native animals can be seen wild and free. Here are seven of the most rewarding places in North America to view wild animals. Everyone will have their own choice of the very “best” place, but these locations, selected for their abundance of animals, natural settings and relative ease of access, are among the continent’s most recommended. Photo: Creative Commons / Ashley Coates
The more I think and read about zoos and places like Sea World, the more opposed I am to wildlife in captivity. The problem is, it’s SO great/educational to see wild animals up close and personal!
I found this link that lists some places where you can enjoy cage-free viewing, and I hope that when I have kids and am tempted to take them to Sea World, I remember these au naturel options instead.
20 Things 20 Year-Olds Don’t Get
 I started Docstoc in my 20s, made the cover of one of those cliché 20 Under 20 lists, and today I employ an amazing group of 20-somethings. Call me a curmudgeon, but at 34, how I came up seems so different from what this millennial generation expects. I made […]
Really great professional advice in here!
CNN: Kate Middleton “Brilliant”€ for Having a Boy Instead of a Girl
CNN correspondent Victoria Arbiter would like to extend her sincerest congratulations to the Duchess of Cambridge. Nice, right? Except, wait .. she’s not so much congratulating Kate Middleton for giving birth to a healthy baby. She’s congratulating her for giving birth to a healthy baby boy.
Way to go, CNN… this is the 21st century, for goodness sake!
CNN: Kate Middleton “Brilliant”€ for Having a Boy Instead of a Girl
In Our Defense, These Were Some Pretty Fucked-Up Laws And We Were Ordered To Deliberate In Accordance With Them
By Juror E6This is the most reasonable and insightful article I’ve read all week in regards to the Zimmerman trial. I wish people wouldn’t brush past the details. I’m so tired of reading uninformed, angry, hateful posts on here.
Bravo to the Onion…(for those of you who are quick to anger, the Onion is satire…i.e. this isn’t an actual juror)…but doesn’t say something when the Onion is more truthful and insightful than our own “trusted” media? (NBC doctoring the 911 tapes comes to mind)
Thanks to Nikki for the share 🙂
Glass ceiling? What glass ceiling?
“In our society, we don’t spend nearly enough time celebrating or appreciating smart women. And I’m as guilty of this as everyone else. Off the top of my head, I can name at least 100 female celebrities and intimate details about their personal lives. I can explain the entire Kardashian family tree, if you want. But I can barely name any women who are significantly changing the world in the field of science, or medicine, or charity.”
It’s time to talk about smart women!
Save your way to $1 million
Just 10 years of aggressive saving can help you sock away enough money for a comfortable retirement.
As painful as it can be sometimes, I’m a big fan of the aggressive savings approach, especially while we are DINKs (Dual Income No Kids.) Maybe that makes me a Scrooge, but to do the things I want in life, money kind of helps. Plus, I am all too familiar with those unexpected hurdles that pop out of nowhere. And when the time for getting kids through college comes – all I can say is Lord have mercy!
The Insanity Virus
Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person’s DNA.
Absolutely fascinating theory on schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorders (and perhaps other mental illnesses as well?) This could provide so much hope for prevention and cure, if it’s true!
Wildflowers & Whimsy 