Speaking of animal issues, PETA wants Seattlites to stop tossing sea-kittens.Can I get a big, ol' "Whatev, PETA" from the studio audience, please?

Racoons are every bit as wiley as 'possums, they just have better tails and may not be evil.

I hope you got that turned around, as racoons are composed almost entirely of evil IME.

PETA loses me with its "Exploit women, not animals," kind of ad campaigns. Not to mention they expect us to eat air and fava beans.

PETA loses me with its "Exploit women, not animals," kind of ad campaigns. Not to mention they expect us to eat air and fava beans.

ION, Fox steals more than 100 shoes

BERLIN (Reuters) – A fox has been unmasked as the mystery thief of more than 100 shoes in the small western German town of Foehren, authorities said Friday.

A forest worker stumbled upon shoes strewn near the fox's den and found a trove of footwear down the hole which had recently been stolen overnight from outside locals' front doors.

"There was everything from ladies' shoes to trainers," said a local police spokesman. "We've found between 110 and 120 so far. It seems a vixen stole them for her cubs to play with."

Although many were missing laces, the shoes were in good condition and their owners were delighted to reclaim them, he said, adding that no reprisals were planned against the culprit.

Kindle Joins a Literary Ritual: Authors Can Autograph It

At book events, bibliophiles typically wait in line to present books to pen-wielding authors, but as readers increasingly turn to electronic-book devices like the Kindle, it raises the question of whether book-signings may one day go the way of the inkwell.

A recent reading in Manhattan at the Strand bookstore by David Sedaris, whose most recent book is “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” may have offered a glimpse of the future. A man named Marty who had waited in the book-signing line presented his Kindle, on the back of which Mr. Sedaris, in mock horror, wrote, “This bespells doom.” (The signed Kindle was photographed, but its owner’s full name is unknown.)

Fox steals more than 100 shoes

Read the headline as referring to the network. Was less surprised than I probably should have been.

Read the headline as referring to the network.

That was my first reaction too.

That was my first reaction too.

My first thought too.

"It seems a vixen stole them for her cubs to play with."

Just like a vixen to steal shoes.

Read the headline as referring to the network.

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