Last week President Obama quietly signed into law legislation that restores funding for USDA inspections of horse meat, effectively ending a five year freeze on such inspections and green-lighting the slaughter and sale of Trigger and Mr. Ed for human consumption. Those wacky animators at NMA break the news to the Pacific Rim in typically surrealistic fashion, no doubt getting a little payback for all those dog-eating jokes us Yanks like to crack. RELATED: Officials are seeking the owner of a horse that was abandoned earlier this week in a vacant lot in Kensington. The Pennsylvania SPCA’s Humane Law Enforcement […]

MOTHER JONES: [This is] from Daniel Ellsberg’s book Secrets, and the setting is a meeting with Henry Kissinger in late 1968 when he was advising him about the Vietnam War. The idea of Kissinger seeking out Ellsberg for advice on Vietnam initially seems a bit unlikely, but in 1968 Ellsberg was a highly respected analyst on the war who had worked for both the Pentagon and Rand, and Kissinger was just entering the government for the first time. Here’s what Ellsberg told him. Enjoy:”Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I […]

WASHINGTON POST: A Utah bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat. Box Elder County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Potter says the 46-year-old Brigham City man was duck hunting with a friend when he climbed out of the boat to move decoys. Potter says the man left his 12-gauge shotgun in the boat and the dog stepped on it, causing it to fire.It wasn’t clear whether the safety on the gun was on at the time. Potter says the man was hit from about 10 feet away with […]