That was good spumoni--not too heavy on the licorice flavor. Why am I eating spumoni at 5 AM? Am still at work and it was there!

http://ping.fm/EqFBV MSG & McDonalds

http://ping.fm/fFMuT Wean from processed foods

http://ping.fm/3vYPF It will stick with you!

"Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock..."

"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground."
~Unknown

The Weather Is A Dick [VIDEO] http://ping.fm/tRQEh

Man On Abbey Road Cover Doesn't Like The Beatles [PIC] http://ping.fm/Rj6hy

The world's most hated person, alive or otherwise.

Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life: LGBT Suicides: Aiyisha Hassan, Age 20 http://ping.fm/V8ozP

Trolls May Have a Disordered Personality || kuro5hin.org http://ping.fm/OQ20e

Animal Anarchy: Adopting your Way Out of Killing http://ping.fm/36f9K

I am dedicating my status to National Feral Cat Day.

Young cats are cute, but the older I get the more I appreciate the more sedate nature of the senior animals.

Trying to teach my rescue kitty not to nip me. I know she's just being a cat, but sometimes it hurts!

Tempest finds the "kids hate vegetables" stereotype lame. As a child I liked certain vegetables and disliked others--just like I do now.

Girl Talk: I Googled My Crush And Found Out The Worst | The Frisky http://ping.fm/Mu3HS

Dumb as a Blog: Just for stupid kicks: 14 Naked movie posters on truTV.com http://ping.fm/oisl1

Dumb as a Blog: Museum 'burglar' dumb as a box of rocks on truTV.com http://ping.fm/jhbZi

Dumb as a Blog: 'S' is for shoplifting on truTV.com http://ping.fm/ZR5Gp

Torrid Tempest: How Can People Be So Heartless? http://ping.fm/YXwuD

Dear Facebook Sidebar: I would sooner perform surgery on myself with no anesthetic than "join Sharron Angle."

The first day this week that I haven't wakened feeling completely heartbroken, though there are still many difficulties.

How Can People Be So Heartless?

This is how I've felt for most of the week. I am grateful for the kindness of a very few decent people. I am still saddened by the animosity displayed towards me from a person for whom I've felt a mutual respect and, I thought, something of a friendship, for a number of years. Yet I cannot allow one person's bitterness to destroy me. It is dismaying to discover that someone for whom you have respect turns out to be someone who makes themselves feel bigger by making others feel small.

Yet this is only my own unhappy discovery. Indeed, many suffer. Most people really do not seem to care about the suffering of their fellow human or creature. There are too many suffering for any one of us to help. Yet if we all helped one another, would not that suffering be made smaller?

The least we can do is try not to make things worse for each other. Does it really help to hurt a cat, kick a dog, beat up someone weaker than yourself? Does it even help to throw verbal barbs at someone who is fat, gay, mentally ill, mentally retarded, transgendered, or otherwise different? Do you really feel good when you realize how much you hurt that person or creature? If so, why? What is missing in you that this sort of behavior makes you feel bigger? Has your heart truly shrunk to such a size that the only thing that can inflate your ego is to demean other people and beings?

Most of us are struggling. Would it not make us feel better to pull our fellows from the raging stream and prevent them from being dragged under than to hurl stones at them?

I have very little faith in humanity to do the right thing as a whole. Yet sometimes there are people who shine as bright lights in the darkness.

A thanks to those people. You are rare and beautiful.

A wish for bright blessings upon you from your battered and bruised but still kicking chum,

Tempest Nightingale LeTrope

A curmudgeon by experience attempting not to be a misanthrope to those downtrodden who don't deserve it

(The Kardashians and the Hiltons and their ostentatious ilk are fair game)

http://ping.fm/FR22e Animal Anarchy a mostly fun but sometimes serious blog that I participate in.

Shame on you, Scotty Schwartz: 19 child actors who went on to successful, respectable careers | Film | Inventory | The A.V. Club http://ping.fm/hQUsK

Dumb as a Blog: Snooki Monster: so funny it's scary on truTV.com http://ping.fm/xlYFY

Dumb as a Blog: Man's best friend returns from the dead on truTV.com http://ping.fm/TFCWS

Trying to convince self that misfortune and a longtime acquaintance turning against me does not make me a bad person deserving of ill.

How To Deal With A Control Freak | Psychology Today http://ping.fm/XLQ7l

Animal Anarchy: Roger Moore: No foie gras http://ping.fm/iDwfI

Roger Moore: No foie gras http://ping.fm/Cf8my

Rattling Bones Undead Musician Magazine: Who Will win Quinn 9: Meekmok Madness on Sammy Hagar's Birthday http://ping.fm/QOXpM

6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly | Cracked.com http://ping.fm/MNv9M

9 Beloved Characters Made Horrifying by Japan | Cracked.com http://ping.fm/SbkNM

The world is such a harsh and painful place. Would it kill us to be a little bit kind to each other?

October 13, 2010 : Savage Love | The A.V. Club http://ping.fm/ug4US

I have grown older and you have grown colder and nothing is very much fun any more.

Most days it just doesn't even seem worth it to wake up.

Woke up feeling blue as blue could be. 'Tis a gray day and I can take advantage of the cool weather and go for a bit of a walk to begin.

Our actions do matter. We can make or break a person's spirit depending on whether we give an encouraging or discouraging word.

Goodness--I may actually have to wear a jacket when I go out tomorrow!

Shakespeare Meme

Ophelia

From Hamlet. You are lonely and depressed. You believe in love, but your experience has taught you that love is bittersweet. You want to be happy but things don't always work out in your favor. Keep trynig, though - and stay away from lakes for a while...

Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life: Granting Permission to Hate http://ping.fm/JWW54

Cooking for Your Doomed Relationship | Cracked.com http://ping.fm/1hbBY

Goodness but the Internet is slow this afternoon!

Celebrity Weight Loss: Big Whoop

I cannot be the only person who thinks that these people didn't look bad in their "before" photos. We as a society need to stop making such a big deal of size and focus on the soul beneath the skin.

Torrid Tempest: Plastic Surgery Sometimes Isn't Pretty http://ping.fm/oWhAI

Plastic Surgery Sometimes Isn't Pretty

 Here are some photos of celebrities whose faces have been destroyed by plastic surgery. They don't even look human any more.

It's a shame that people feel the need to do this to themselves. I have had minor plastic surgery, such as liposuction to remove a double chin (back when I was fortunate enough to only weigh 150 pounds) and caps on badly damaged teeth. I will never have botox and I have stopped dyeing my hair since it is now almost completely gray. We need to stop seeing aging as a bad thing. We may not obliterate people once they hit 30 such as was the premise of Logan's Run, but we do push the idea that anyone over a certain age is no longer valuable. It needs to stop!

A mature and still handsome Michael York, who allowed his face to age naturally rather than trying (and failing) to still look 25 via plastic surgery

A mature and lovely Jenny Agutter (left) with a friend

Farrah Fawcett also allowed herself to age naturally. Even when she became ill, her natural beauty shone through.

Life does not end at 30. Nor does beauty. We need to become a more mature society and learn to see the beauty in all of life's NATURAL phases!

BBC News - UK aid worker may have been killed by rescuers' grenade http://ping.fm/k8hg7

BBC News - Coping with a child with Asperger's http://ping.fm/vf3l1

Good morning, Dahlings. Long time no post.