a few links

[cellio]

A funny article addressed to people who move to Israel. (From zachkessin.) Language issues are fun. :-)

The latest round in a long-running literary feud is pretty funny. I had no idea the British scholarly world was so exciting! :-) (From 530nm330hz.) (To bypass the required registration, try http://www.bugmenot.com.)

Now a serious one: save a life, get fired. If this account is true, the idiot customer should be charged with animal cruelty and Nieman-Marcus should reinstate and apologize to their employee. (From revlainiep.)

Comments

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Re: the last item: Ugh, that's absurd. Summers are absolutely vile here in Atlanta, and it's just plain sadistic to leave animals locked in a car like that. Why didn't the woman just leave her dratted dogs at home?

[cellio]

In Pittsburgh, which is rather farther north than Atlanta, people make a point every summer of stressing how much the insides of cars can heat up even if you leave the windows cracked. It's hard to be a pet owner and not hear that clue. I believe this is also chargable under local animal-cruelty laws -- which, granted, generally involve a slap on the wrist, but at least it's something.

Why didn't she leave the dogs at home? I assume that would have been inconvenient... I mean, we're talking N-M here; it's not like she had to make an unplanned stop at the pharmacy for her medicine and they're closing in 5 minutes and there's really not time to go home first and it's really important to get the medicine, or something like that.