What exactly is cat-scratch fever? Is it a virus or bacteria particular to cats? Or just a puncture/scratch that happens to get infected?
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Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a bacterial disease caused by Bartonella henselae.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 6:45:10 am PDT #9828 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
flea - Jul 14, 2005 6:45:44 am PDT #9829 of 10001
information libertarian
Dude, I am blinvisible to tommyrot.
tommyrot - Jul 14, 2005 6:46:40 am PDT #9830 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dude, I am blinvisible to tommyrot.
No way, dude! There was an x-posty-poo.
Jesse - Jul 14, 2005 6:48:46 am PDT #9831 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
No, Jesse. My friend's daughter contracted it from a relatively mild scratch, at least, she certainly wasn't attacked.
Oh, that's creepier, then. Damn cats! Why do we bring wild animals into the house, anyway?!??!
Theodosia - Jul 14, 2005 6:49:47 am PDT #9832 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Eeek, flea -- the kind of reference case they don't tell you about in library school, I bet.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 14, 2005 6:49:57 am PDT #9833 of 10001
What is even happening?
Don't make me break out the domestication conversation all afresh, when the first run hasn't quite tapered off.
Trudy Booth - Jul 14, 2005 6:51:49 am PDT #9834 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
so, a building collapsed on 100 & Bway? anyone know of this?
That's three blocks from me and I heard neither sirens nor booms. Dallas and I shall take a stroll over and investigate.
lori - Jul 14, 2005 6:53:26 am PDT #9835 of 10001
Ha! The fact that it's frowning makes my day. Electricity is grouchy!
I love that!
There are some weird heavy construction trucks around here that are tall enough to expose big spinny grindy axle (power take-off) bits underneath, and those have the best warning signs. Poor little silhouette guy getting twisted and chewed up by the axle.
Sue - Jul 14, 2005 6:59:11 am PDT #9836 of 10001
hip deep in pie
There's now a picture of the collapsed building on the front page of the NY Times website: [link]
Susan W. - Jul 14, 2005 6:59:28 am PDT #9837 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
In other news, one of the BIG disasvantages of my adorable chamring daughter is the fact that I have had "Elmo's song" in my head for DAYS. I shelve books singing, "La la la, La la la, Elmo's song..."
One of the little-known hazards of parenting. I limit Annabel's PBS to Sesame Street and Between the Lions just because the earworms are a tad less obnoxious than with Teletubbies, Barney, etc.