Scott Garrett (NJ-05) is a symbol of the moral decay of the Bush Administration, and his barbaric voting record on animal rights is almost unique in the northeast, a reflection of his own savage views. Fortunately, we have the antidote with us here today — Dennis Shulman, who wrote his postdoctoral psychoanalytic dissertation on the relationship between two of his blind patients and their guide dogs.

Please join him and his daughter Julie here with us in the comments.

You can donate to Dennis’s campaign here.

The Department Of Homeland Security plans to bring the devastating hoof-and-mouth virus to America’s moo belt, making Kansas Sen Roberts and the DHS happy as a firebug at a pyre of burning livestock carcasses. What, them worry? They’re Bushies.

Whatever flavor of candidate we prefer, we’re in the global ice cream parlor together. And we’re really bad guests – we’re killing the place. We know better, but we keep smashing the place up cause PR voices on the shiny screens tell us that’s fun and popular. After all, that’s what the Powerful People do, right?

Katie would like to thank everyone for their prayers, kind thoughts and support during her five years at Guantanamo Bay night at the pet hospital.

What do a portly French farmer, some of the fattest families you’ve ever seen, a bunch of hippies, and a crew flying a pirate flag have in common?

They’ve all had really good eco-news.

And so have we.

The first good news is that Jose has resumed eating solid food.

After he made Power do what he told them to do.

Fortunately, Jose is not in his terrible twos.

But Jose is the L’enfant terrible to

I know the “intelligent design” crowd are a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to stuff like evolution, but consensus reality really does hold that China does not share a border with the US.

Now that Mike Huckabee is the Republican Flavor Of The Month, let’s see how all that extra attention is working out for him. I’ll just pull out some items I’ve read over the past coupla days, selected completely at random, and not with any kind of preconceived objective like, say, portraying the Huckster as a completely unsuitable presidential candidate… even for the Republicans.

I considered attending the “Volunteer Training Meeting” held Saturday morning at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for citizens who wanted to help with the cleanup of the San Francisco Bay’s worst oil spill in years.But I’m glad I stayed home instead.Hundreds of would-be oil spill cleanup volunteers who wanted to do something were told on Saturday in San Francisco to go home and do nothing.Spilled oil is just too dangerous for ordinary

Okay let’s just get this out of the way up front. Nobody has peed on more bushes, sniffed more dog butt or chased more squirrels than me hollering “screw Michael Vick.” I don’t get the guy. Who gets off watching dogs tear each other apart, and then hangs them if they underperform?

The poodles make their YouTube debut. It was only a matter of time.And yes, that is my finger in the top left of the screen. So much for the fancy USC film school education.Linda M. sends this link along to the Animal Rescue Site, where clicking through will provide food for animals in sanctuary and shelter.Woof.