Dogs in hot cars: What to do if you see one

How often do you see dogs left alone in their car? It is quite a common occurrence around here...where temperatures can get up into the high 90s and even higher inside of a parked car. That's why I was intrigued by the ad campaign the Los Angeles County D.A.'s office (via petfinder.com) is running...photos of dogs in ovens. If that doesn't get someone's attention, I don't know what will. Click the link below to find out what to do if you come across this scenario.

Dogs in hot cars: What to do if you see one

Will human life be wiped out by a BP-induced methane eruption? No.

I'd have to say this is a regular conversation with people I know...this only semi-eases my concern.

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Let's just get this out of the way now: The BP oil disaster, while horrible in innumerable ways, is not literally the end of the world.

If you've spent any considerable length of time on the Internet lately — and not just its dark conspiratorial alleys — you may have run across a number of geological reports that read like the plot of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie: BP may have haphazardly tapped into a violent reservoir of methane gas deep below Earth's surface, possibly setting off a chain of events that could lead to release of a "methane mega-bubble"capable of triggering floods of biblical proportions and emitting poisons into the atmosphere, effectively wiping humans off the face of the Earth.

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Hairspray: not just for hair

A fellow blogger over at tightwadblog.com shared these very interesting alternative uses for hairspray. I'd have to say they are quite clever. My favorite? Being from Louisiana it'd have to be...Zapping Pesky Mosquitoes! Of course.




"Unless you are particularly fond of mosquitos you may consider having a bottle of hairspray around to get them a quick zap. One blast will stiffen their wings and immobilize the little critters."

Go over and check out the other uses...I'm going to have to head to Wal-Mart tomorrow to buy my first can of Aqua-net since my "big hair" days back in the 90s.

That's me on the left at age 13.