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[conuly]

Aggressive 'helicopter' parents force egg hunt cancellation

Lobbyists, Guns and Money. This one is pretty scary.

Finally, back in the middle ages, there was a breed of dogs that cooked food. No, really.

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[dragonwolf]

Your lobbyists one requires a login. =/

[conuly]

Oh, really? I had thought, since they were limiting articles to 10-per-month without a paid subscription, that they were making them free without ANY subscription up until that 10. I'll c+p this later, you're the second to mention it, but I'd hoped the first just had run out of free articles. (And really, what a stupid idea of theirs.)

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

References to "the turnspit" meaning those dogs are in a number of fairy tales. They're mentioned in several stories in Andrew Lang's colored fairy book collection. I think they're also in Mark Twain's The Prince & the Pauper.

They are also in the very first Pern story, "Weyr Search". When Lessa is using her psychic abilities to ruin the reception and dinner for Lord Fax, one of the things she does is control the dogs who turn the roast so it's overdone on one side and undercooked on the other. Bwah-hah-hah.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

"I promised my kid an Easter egg hunt and I'd want to give him an even edge."

An even edge? You want to give him an advantage, but the same one that all the other kids have? Right.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

The crazy part is, this doesn't give the kids an even chance, it gives the parents one. Why the hell don't they go off and have their own Easter egg hunt and leave the kids alone?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Before I pointed at it I figured that was about the turnspit dogs.

And the lobbyist, guns and money story wants me to register with the Times.

[conuly]

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/03/21/nytimes-com-paywall-and-the-google-chrome-browsers-incognito-mode/