Category Archives: Animals

“Officer, that lion is a hoon!”

May 30, 2008 – 8:46 pm

I just can’t get over this picture of a lion enjoying himself on a “wall of death” ride in a sidecar. He looks like he’s having so much fun. Apparently this was taken in Massachusetts in 1929. Seriously.

(Via The Stumblng Tumblr)

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Being Behinderhund or, blogging while disabled - guest post by DeusExMacintosh

May 27, 2008 – 6:17 am

DeusExMacintosh is one of our regular commenters, and earlier this year she had a slightly unusual run-in with facebook, which seems to be an organisation somewhat given to perverse control-freakery. While not on a par with the casual denigration on display here, it’s still pretty ordinary. I asked her if she’d be interested in telling [...]

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Updates

March 31, 2008 – 5:29 pm

Update 1:
Thomas Towle, the Mildura driver who killed 6 teens and seriously injured 4 others, has been sentenced to 10 years in gaol. I told you it would be interesting to see what his sentence would be! Although Towle was convicted of dangerous driving (a lesser offence), he will be serving more time than the [...]

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Not just monkey business

March 16, 2008 – 10:36 pm

What happens if a person is brought up in a way that is more likely to cause them to act violently? Should they be criminally responsible for their actions? That’s a difficult enough question, but what happens if the perpetrator of a crime is a monkey? These questions are raised by the case of Chico [...]

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Animal meme

October 19, 2007 – 11:35 pm

An interesting animal I had
Really it would be an interesting animal owned by my family. There was Blinky the daredevil silken haired hamster, who liked to hang off the top of her cage and drop off. She was psycho.
Then of course there’s the family dog, an insane but loving Jack Russell who lives with my [...]

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It’s a dog’s life

September 16, 2007 – 8:17 pm

Apparently there is a booming industry for lawyers in the US who represent animals, particularly in the context of relationship breakdown and estate planning. As the Legal Soapbox commented the other day, a US property development mogul left a substantially larger bequest for her dog than she left for any of her human relatives. And [...]

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