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As we arrived at the local Starbucks, my three year old son and I witnessed an ongoing animal rescue effort. A raccoon apparently had climbed up a tree and got stuck up there.

  

A policewoman borrowed ladders from nearby establishments, first from Starbucks but theirs was too short. She got a taller one from Autozone.

A crowd immediately gathered around the tree. One manong came up to me and asked me what creature was up there. I told him it was a raccoon. The rescue effort took about 15 minutes in all. People applauded when it was over.

I just watched a portion of the show Crimes and Trials on the History Channel featuring the Son of Sam killing spree that paralyzed New York City with fear back in the ’70s. David Berkowitz is now serving 350 years in a maximum security prison for the murders he committed then.

There was another program that I caught earlier in the evening that also featured Berkowitz. The Focus on the Family radio program had Berkowitz discuss “how poor choices led to the horrific murders he committed, and how he eventually became a Christian.” Here’s David in his own words:

…God is the God of love, forgiveness, mercy and hope. And He’ll have compassion on anybody that comes to Him because Jesus came into this world to save sinners and if He could save someone like me, a man who is a murderer, who is a criminal, who was in trouble and tormented most of his life, I know that God can save anybody, that there is nobody beyond the reach of His salvation, of His outstretched hands of love.

Are these insincere words aimed to please the parole board? Quite the contrary. He has sent a letter to the governor of New York rejecting a parole hearing for himself. Read Berkowitz’s personal testimony and view a mini-documentary on a life transformed from his official website.

In the heels of acquiring the Muppets, Disney has sealed a deal to cofinance and distribute the first installment of the movie adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic children’s fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia.

Work has already begun on the film by Peter Jackson’s WETA Workshop in New Zealand. The project is led by Kiwi director Andrew Adamson, who won an Oscar for directing Shrek.

Dogster.com is a growing social networking site for dogs put together by “self-described computer and canine geeks.” In this chart, it shows the Philippines as the fourth most represented country on the site with 124 registered dogs (the United Kingdom has 121). You realize the Philippines’ numbers can be much higher than that, don’t you?