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JoJo, a lab mix, was tied to a pickup trailer hitch and dragged.   Katie, a lab, and Petey, a Boston terrier, were stung to death by honey bees.  Grace, an Australian sheperd, was pumped full of pellets from a 12-gauge shotgun.  Fox, a sheriff's department canine officer, died of heat stroke.   An old, ailing Chihuahua was smothered to death by a pillow in Florida. Dog Days are supposed to be when dogs lie around in the shade, waiting for autumn and some relief from the heat.  The time of dreaded July and August heat has been marked as Dog Days since ...

Beginning in October, Tennessee and Northwest Georgia will see the first of a new kind of filling station aimed at answering the 220-volt question of the electric car age:  Where do I plug this sucker in?   According to the Chattanooga  Times Free Press, 1,535 public battery charging stations will be scattered across the area at interstate highway rest areas and welcome centers and at malls and big-box stores. Tennessee's effort is part of its tie-in with Nissan, makers of the Leaf electric car, which is opening a lithium-ion battery plant in Smyrna, Tennessee.  Nissan plans an early roll-out of the Leaf ...

USA Today reports that non-financial corporations are holding on to $837 billion in cash instead of hiring or investing in new plant. Non-financial companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 have a record $837 billion in cash, S&P says. That’s enough to pay 2.4 million people $70,000-a-year salaries for five years. For context, 2.2 million to 2.8 million jobs were saved or created by the $862 billion stimulus that President Obama signed into law in February 2009, according to a report released in April from the Council of Economic Advisers. Another myth exposed. Our risk-taking entrepreneurs are actually rabbits hiding in ...

So Blago’s guilty of lying, but after six and half years of Justice Department investigations, many millions spent, federal prosecutors couldn’t convince 12 of his peers that he was guilty of any of the other 23 charges. Blago will likely be re-tried. Our hemisphere is having the hottest summer ever recorded – wildfires in Russia, an iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, and Pakistan has more than 20 million affected by flooding with 8+ million in desperate need of food and clean water – yet, the Climate and Energy Bill is being held hostage by Senate ...

"As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances." President Obama Damn! There’s that inconvenient First Amendment thing cropping up again as American citizens attempt to exercise their Constitutional right to build a mosque on privately held ground two blocks from “Ground Zero.” Of course the fact that 9/11 was masterminded by al Qaeda and not all Muslims is lost ...

Nathan Deal has out-hated Karen Handel to become the Republicans’ choice for the next governor of Georgia. Proclaiming to represent conservative values, which of course means profiling Hispanic citizens and demonizing gay people who happen to want committed relationships, Deal questioned Handel’s hate bona fides and won. Karen Handel left tell-tale signs she didn’t hate quite enough. Gay people are awful, terrible, sinful, Godless heathens and their desire to love, honor and obey each other threatens to wreck the marriages of heterosexuals who would henceforth look at their own marriages and say, what’s the point of being married if gay people ...

Maybe you remember David Stockman. He was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan. Mr. Stockman wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times last week which raises a significant question about the relationship between tax cuts and the national debt. The theory goes that tax cuts pay for themselves and, in fact, generate more revenue for the government than if they had not been enacted. If we dig a little deeper we can see that this “tax cuts equals increased government revenue” is based on supply-side economics. According to Martin Wolf, chief economics ...

Beth Heath’s biggest frustration as Madison County nurse manager is when she can’t help someone, when she has to turn someone away. “There are patients that leave [the health department], and we worry about them because we don’t know what they’re going to do,” said Heath. As Georgia’s public health resources shrink, so does the list of conditions the health departments can treat. Since Heath has been with the health department, ear infections, pink eye, sinusitis, and sore throat have dropped from the list. The Northeast health district used to have a nurse that provided acute care, but she was laid off. While ...

ATLANTA -- Today, President Obama announced to the National Convention of Disabled Veterans of America that he is keeping one of his campaign promises – America’s longest war will be unofficially* over on August 31, 2010. Twenty years and eight months since our Middle East invasion. More than 4,000 American lives have been lost and 30,000+ wounded or disabled. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians lost or maimed and millions more have been displaced or are refugees. An estimated five million orphaned children. Two failed Bush presidencies. Well more than a trillion dollars of treasury spent so far. No WMDs ...

Clanton, Alabama, residents spooked by odd-dog sightings, have discovered that at least one of them was a "coydog" -- half coyote, half dog.  Animal Control Officer Bobby Tucker, who trapped the creature, believes it was the offspring of a coyote and a German Shepherd, according to the Clanton Advertiser, and he thinks there are other "coydogs" out there. "There are a lot of elderly people in the area concerned with seeing them," Tucker told the Advertiser. "We don't know a lot about them or what they're capable of."  This particular "coydog" was euthanized after Humane Society officials decided it was ...

There are things in the world that are terrifying. You know…the usual stuff: the 7 Plagues, nuclear war, pestilence, Rush Limbaugh, Styrofoam “peanuts”, Anne Heche, “infomercials – the things that make our blood run cold and our brains reel with the words “Say wha?” This morning was pretty much the same as most. The scent of brewing coffee lured me into grudging consciousness and I staggered into the kitchen, turning on my spouse along the way (the Computer, not the Husband). While it went through its usual techno-stretch-and-moan routine, I poured a cup and extricated my leg from Charley (the dog, ...

My friend Andrew has embarked on a noble mission, to write a haiku every day for a year, chronicling the foibles of life in seventeen poignant syllables. In this age of overwhelming bloviating, his zen-like approach to the news of the day is a quaint, reflective and usually quite humorous way to absorb the culture crashing down upon us. Like putting prose into twitter, the snippets of wisdom, often twisting at the end, encapsulate ideas into neat packages of words. Visit his site, HaikuLounge and contribute your own take on life. I have found it quite cathartic to distill thoughts into this lovely ...

Read this story from ABCNews.com first and then get back to me. Okay, you’re back. I apologize for the sick sense of disbelief and nausea that you’re now experiencing. “Jessi's social life has largely been confined to her computer. She told ABCNews.com that most of her friends are online and posted a rant that included “I'll Pop a Glock in Your Mouth and Make a Brain Slushy” (to quote this pre-pubescent girl). Jessi is eleven years old. Her world is that of the dark corridors of internet chatrooms, blogs and the warped “reality” of cyberspace. This is not a child who is a ...