50 Years Later, New Dog Replaces A Long-Lost Friend

Andrei Codrescu — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:06:00 +0000

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

We end the hour with commentator Andrei Codrescu and this dispatch from Arkansas and the dog days of summer.

ANDREI CODRESCU, BYLINE: They say that a dog doesn't make good journalism, unless a man bites him. But my dachshund Gulliver, a stray who wandered skinny through the neighborhood looking for scraps of food and being kicked by passersby, found a journalist who thinks he's big news.