Animals
Vince Staten on turkeys:
Tom Cox is obviously wrong on one point in this post about cats, but he can't be blamed for that, as he has never met Serena.
(Serena has, by the way, become a cuddler--at least a part-time cuddler--since Silver came home. I suspect her real message is to her Prodigal Daughter. "You may have the closet with the kitten nest box, cat dishes, and litter box. I snooze on the human." In any case, if I let them spend a cold night in the office, and I then write until I fall asleep on my bench, I have become a cat bed. Serena sends purry vibrations, not a purr out loud, to everyone.)
Books
Prince Caspian is not my favorite Narnia book...but they're all good.
Etiquette, Unpardonable Sins Against
I say this as a Christian: The three guys who went to a Muslim prayer meeting and "stomped around" the men who were putting themselves in the vulnerable position required by their faith, insulted their beliefs verbally, and waved bacon at them, were beyond rude. They were criminally harassing and threatening their schoolmates. Their behavior offends me. It qualifies as blasphemy. If I were the judge, I'd at least put them on probation for six months in jail, conditioned on good behavior including spending their weekends at heavy labor in service to the Muslim community.
Now, compare and contrast with the Palestinians who broke into the homes of Jewish families during their prayers, raped women, and killed babies. Why are so many on the Left so quiet about that? Why is there still any talk about letting these men live long enough to form a state? Why is there any question about them beyond: gallows, or firing squad?
Gender Issues
A man won the title for World's Strongest Woman, and the reaction from other athletes and the audience convinced the judges to revoke it. But note: While we're reading of men who identify as women stealing women's athletic titles, we see nothing about their out-competing women in any other way. These men are not writing credible novels as women, they're not better office managers or marketers or teachers than women, and--although they try--most of them are not even stealing men's attention from women. They have greater upper body strength. They are the half of humankind that was designed to chop wood and carry water for women, and, whatever they do about it, they always will be. Quite rightly. They certainly aren't going to give birth to the babies. Apparently they're not going to develop the perceptivity, the listening skills, the attention spans, the verbal logic, the nonviolence, etc., of typical women, either.
Language
Believed to be the origin of the word "spam" as used to mean advertising junk e-mail:
Meme
Ganked from the Mirror; Lens can't identify the first appearance but says it's been circulating for at least three years. It's not the way the Cat Sanctuary's not-a-lawn, orchard, and branch creek are laid out--the house here is further above the stream, and there's a road between the house and the creek, among other things--but it has the right general features. Somebody was speaking for me.
Music
The classic English Thanksgiving song:
Obituary
Sarah Beckstrom, only 20 years old, "specialist" in the National Guard, patrolling the mean streets of Washington, let a lousy creep get close enough to take her gun and blow her head off. May she rest in peace. She was a pretty girl...in that international, basic-human-color way that was likely to appeal to an Afghan, like the lousy creep. Some day we'll have that national conversation about how much men hate the women they want and can't have.
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