Jim Baen has died.  I really feel like a part of my world has been chipped off.  Jim Baen saved hard sci fi from the LSD hippy fuzzily wuzzily sci fi of the late '60s early 70's. David Drake has written an obit that pretty much says it all.  All I can add to it is, damn, will Jim Baen be missed.

 

Our realtor called and said one of our neighbors called and offered $10k an acre for our land.  Er, yeah, right.  In his dreams, maybe.  Ten years ago, maybe.  NOW??

A New Photo has been added to GrimesCountyHome.

A New Photo has been added to GrimesCountyHome.

A New Photo has been added to GrimesCountyHome.

A New Photo has been added to GrimesCountyHome.

Dog fights are illegal in Texas, but that hasn't stopped one company from selling a DVD that features pit bulls fighting to the sound of rap music.  The Humane Society of the United States believes the DVDs not only depict cruelty, but a crime as well, since the DVDs are being shipped over state lines.

The Humane Society believes the video isn't just brutal and cruel but illegal.

"It is heartbreaking any time you see it and it's frustrating to know that these people are doing it and they're profiting from selling this and showing it," says the Society's Tammy Hawley.

Federal law prohibits anyone from profiting in interstate commerce by depicting animal cruelty.

The Humane Society is asking the U.S. Attorney in North Texas to investigate Trophy Club-based 50/50 Entertainment.

The story says the company is based out of North Texas.  Just by going to the company's website, I was able to pick up the phone number and run it through a reverse look up site; though it doesn't give much information about the number, it does say that it is a land line in Grand Prairie, TX. 

The DVD itself has been described as mostly young men attacking each other, with the dog fighting showing up in between human on human violence.  I haven't quite figured out how fighting is supposed to give a person "street cred" when it just makes a person look dumb and crazed, but then, I am not the kind of person who watchs this kind of crapola either.  I especially don't pay to watch this kind of crapola; I can always just watch the English and German soccer fans go at it for free on the news....