Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse: The Buzz Log - A Good Day to Be a Wombat

BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse

I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.

As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........

Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......

Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......

How did I get here from there?

Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Buzz Log - A Good Day to Be a Wombat - Yahoo! Buzz

The Buzz Log - A Good Day to Be a Wombat - Yahoo! Buzz: "Australian news outlets have gone wild about the story of an American man who left $8 million to the 'non profit organisation specialising in large scale rescue and rehabilitation of the Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat.' The donation will come in $1-million-per-year increments, starting next year. His family has asked, perhaps not too surprisingly, for anonymity.

As Forbes.com writes, the man visited the organization several years ago and went on a tour of the surrounding areas, where he was shown wild wombats that had been injured, starved, or diseased. A rep for the group says the man was clearly moved by what he saw, and he never forgot the experience. Years later, a little-known organization is $8 million richer."

Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse