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SUNSET, Utah - A woman said a veterinarian mixup cost her dog her life. When Ziggy started having breathing problems and difficulty keeping food down, Andrea Martinez acted quickly. “It kind of scared us, and so we took him to the vet around 9 p.m.,” she said. They went to a Davis County animal hospital and learned he’d need surgery, a bit pricey, but Ziggy is part of the family, she said. “He was our baby. It was daughters best friend, my dog’s best friend. It was ours. Money wasn’t an issue,” she said. They left Ziggy and say they...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89. His death, at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, was announced on Friday by his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of the MSNBC program “Morning Joe.” Like his predecessor Henry A. Kissinger, Mr. Brzezinski was a foreign-born scholar (he in Poland, Mr. Kissinger in Germany) with considerable influence in global affairs, both before and long...

In this stuning moment of post-Alito SCOTUS shock and awe, I trust that all my decent FReeper Friends will give this humble and heartfelt post the level of respect it deserves. I thank you all in advance for any help in restoring the full functionality of my classified CIA/NSA beebing device in case I meet any trolls, Sheehans, Bidens or Shumers.

In my humble opinion a true artist will display almost supernatural talent regardless of what constraints he may encounter as a result of a chosen medium. Hand Pablo Picasso a sheet of paper and a pencil and he'll doodle up a simple drawing called "The Bull" and sell it for 50 Grand. A great musician should be able to perform a similar prestidigitation with a simple suite of instruments to work with. Modern technology has masked the deficiencies of many modern artists, but it has also given them a homogeneous, canned sound that has stopped being revolutionary and has nearly...