Tales of Honey,the amazing wonder dog


So, I get home after a long day putting out The Cranbury Press. Annie’s out with friends so I stop for some Chinese food (General Tsao’s) and a six-pack of Smutty Nose IPA. I walk in the door to shredded garbage.

Yes. I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a dog — maybe the smartest dog on the planet. Maybe the Houdini of dogs.

Some history: We’ve had Honey (pictured on vacation with us last month) for nine years and she has shown an uncanny ability to get into almost anything — including drawers and cabinets, from which she likes to take paper and food, closing the drawer or door behind her.

We thought we’d gotten around this when we renovated the kitchen last year, putting in a pullout drawer to hide the trash can. For a while, this worked — until about six months ago when she figured out how to open it.

Our solution? Put a heavy kitchen chair in front of it. That worked for another six months, until today. When I got home I found the chair — a metal, cafe-height chair — pushed away about 8 inches. The trash drawer was closed, but the bag and all of its contents were shredded and strewn through the kitchen into the den and the dining room. Yuck.

And we just had the rugs cleaned.

As I said, she’s too smart for her own good.

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Mourn for the nation

Harper’s offers a comment from Hannah Arendt on its Web site:

And though tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Read the full quote here and mourn for our nation.

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A surge in violence

From Fire Dog Lake:

I thought the “Bush surge” in Iraq was supposed to reduce violence.

I thought so, too. But the violence just seems to continue and, as Fire Dog Lake — and numerous news reports — points out, it is on the rise.

Exactly how long are our nation’s soldiers expected to play this deluded game of whack-a-mole, risking life and limb for George Bush’s ego? Because even allowing for an increase in violence due to the weather heating up and the usual summer uprisings and such, the whole “surge of troops to quell the violence” concept is working bass ackwards.

And it is the troops on the ground, not the strutting folks in Washington, who are paying the ultimate price for this. As well as the Iraqi people, most of whom are trapped in increasingly violent sectarian pockets, or running to other nations as refugees from George Bush’s war. What a mess.

Indeed.

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