Just a few comments on the latest news...
1) The city is cracking down on dog owners again, and I say, "GOOD." $250 if you're caught not picking up after your dog. Cops, Parks and Sanitation workers can issue the tickets, but can we also allow regular people to make citizens' arrests, or at least knock the offending owners down into the poo they've left so discourteously behind? I don't blame the dogs, I blame the cretins who own them. Same goes for all o'y'all who insist on dragging your dog into every establishment you venture into. Note -- your dog doesn't belong in a bar, restaurant, deli, or anywhere else that they are serving food. Or any public retail establishment, for that matter. And all you business owners out there, what's it going to take? I know, you don't want to seem uncool, but what's cooler? Letting that chick bring her dog into your coffee shop, or the fine that you will get from the Health Department? Ooh, wait, I know what would be really cool: if her dog bites someone and then you get sued...
2) Of course I have to comment on Britney Spears. What a privilege -- we've now got living breathing, walking-amongst-us evidence that some people are really not meant to ever escape from the trailer park. It's kinda like the thought that crosses my mind whenever I see people getting on the PATH: "Ah, back to New Jersey, where they belong."
3) On the other hand, I picked up the latest fat issue of Vanity Fair, and couldn't help but notice that a huge number of the ads feature everyone's favorite cokehead supermodel, Kate Moss. However, I notice that, despite the fact that I couldn't care one way or another about her, my reaction is, "So much for those photos of her hoovering coke like an anteater ruining her career...hooray for Kate! The morality police didn't win!"
That's all for today... back to the job hunt....
5 comments:
You don't remember when the pooper-scooper law was passed, but I do. Dog owners lobbied against it. WBAI broadcast the hearings. One thing I learned is you can't win if the opposition successfully labels you "the pro-dogshit lobby."
I'm all for this dog poo crackdown. My disgusting roommate leaves his dog's shit everywhere and when I comment that he should pick it up, he says, "ppphhtt... someone else will get it." Yeah, it's ME. Since I am standing there, I obligate myself to pick it up. I despise people who do not pick up their dog's shit...
I don't have such a problem with people bringing dogs into establishments (within reason), but that's the difference of opinion between someone who is friends with animals vs someone who wears their skin as decoration.
D'oh!
Can you please explain to me the logic jump -- from wanting basic hygiene and public safety in a place where food is being prepared to someone not being a "friend with animals" and wearing fur?
I'm stymied.
Janey
(aka, The Brooklynite animal-hater with two cats who frequently eat better than she does, who get better medical treatment than she does, and who are BOTH rescued strays)
I like nice dogs, but not at the salad bar. THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE! I know that seems obvious, but sheesh. Dumbasses here routinely ignore the leash law cuz their precious Fluffy would never bite anyone. And you're supposed to trust them. Bwah!
Can you please explain to me the logic jump -- from wanting basic hygiene and public safety in a place where food is being prepared to someone not being a "friend with animals" and wearing fur?
In 1971 the the pro-dogshit lobby (as they were labeled) said that dog shit was "natural" and organic and fertilized the concrete, and the pooper-scooper folks were therefore horrible robot Nazis who stomped on sweet little puppies and children and should be shot dead.
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