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Why are people so freaked out about eating horse meat? Slate wrote a piece about this a couple of weeks ago, and it got me thinking about why,  as a society, we have no problem slaughtering pigs, cows, deer, whatever, but somehow eating horse meat is repulsive and cruel. Why the meat discrimination? Other countries don’t have this objection (think France), and horse meat is healthier and leaner than most. Why not ship them to slaughterhouses just like all the other large animals? There’s a system in place, and there’s a need (think empty food shelves and urban liberal ‘localvores’). As a journalist, I thought there's a story here, especially if I could find horse people out there who felt similarly. Apparently Oklahoma just passed a law allowing horse slaughter but in Minnesota it's long been illegal (they tried to pass a law allowing it in 2009). I reached out to a few of local breeders in Minnesota. All were surprisingly open to the idea but only one allowed me to co...

That's what my mom always said. She loved metal jewelry, metal mirror frames, stainless steel countertops (metal!). Well, here's a whole tree made out of metal! My sister and I saw it together on Tuesday at the National Gallery of American Art Sculpture Grden in Washington D.C. Yep. We were there since Saturday taking the trip that my mom had wished she'd made before she died almost two years ago. Well, if mom were truly with us she would likely have done a lot more history and famous buildings like e library of congress and who knows, the capital or the some other president related stuff. But Em and I had a good time. I left some of Mom's ashes at this tree because I know she would have grabbed my arm and said, "Jessie! Look at that! Isn't that wonderful!" or something like that.

Netta and Bailey told me they were 'sleeping.' But look closes, are their eyes closed? LIARS! And to add insult to injury they did this seconds later: I'm not if I'll ever be able to trust again.

Arthur and Lewis both danced amazing amount of inspired dancing. Bailey, Netta and a ratty plastic doll snuggling with Nanna

Bailey sees herself in Jessica's iPhone and is a little confused. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPUT24pDbQ8?rel=0]