Petition · Stop harassing war vets with service dogs. · Change.org

Please take go take a look at this petition: Petition · Stop harassing war vets. · Change.org: My PTSD service dog Gander and I have been shooed out of at least 5 different Starbucks in the past year. This is not only humiliating, its illegal. I want Starbucks to educate their staff about…

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Wow! It Just Became Legal for Parisian Women to Wear Pants…

I just came acrossthis article: It Just Became Legal for Parisian Women to Wear Pants – Megan Garber – The Atlantic Amazing! According to the article, the law first went on the books in 1799. It was amended a couple of times, and then (my bold) …  In 2010, a…

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Did You Know that DUI Checkpoints Are Illegal in 12 States?

For the uninitiated, DUI checkpoints, also known as sobriety checkpoints, are roadblocks set up by the police under the auspices of catching for drunk drivers. Yes, the kind of thing you expect to encounter during a manhunt when a serial killer escapes from prison or maybe when a child is…

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Service Animals: Yes, You Do Have to Let Them in Whether You Like it or Not.

Full disclosure? I think that people who try to turn away people with service animals are assholes. Major assholes. Special place in Hell assholes. I am also not so stupid, rigid, or naïve as to think that there aren’t special circumstances, as in the rare unruly service animal causing a…

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Want to Send Your Parents to Jail? Show Up Late for School a Whole Bunch of Times.

OK. I could have said “frequently” or “on a regular basis” but I chose “a whole bunch of times” because I love the line in Freeway when Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon) asks Bob (Kiefer Sutherland) if he wants to get shot “a whole bunch of times.” I don’t know if that…

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