The next generation hitches a ride out on the cat's feces, which are ingested by rats to start the cycle over again.

If rats would only stop eating cat feces, none of this would happen....

If rats would only stop eating cat feces, none of this would happen....

This is just another heartless example of blaming the victim. Oh sure, it's popular these days to say, 'If they're eating cat faeces, don't they pretty much deserve everything they get?' But think about it from the rat's point of view. They can't vomit. Who else do you want eating the cat faeces?

This is just another heartless example of blaming the victim.

Plus, you know, they shouldn't really be wearing those revealing outfits....

Plus, you know, they shouldn't really be wearing those revealing outfits....

You better not be picking on the naked mole rats now. I'ma step up and introduce you to the five fingers of enlightenment.

Ugh, y'all. Little too much for morning's first blush, I gotta say. Yes, I look at photos of decomp sometimes. But that's a work thing. I'm a lady, goddamn it.

You better not be picking on the naked mole rats now.

As long as they keep it to the privacy of their burrows - you don't see naked mole rats throwing themselves at cats, do you?

Wait, maybe you do....

Can I just say hooray for the government today, who sent me my piddly tax refund so that arrived this morning right while I was scrambling around trying to find a way to get an extra fifty bucks or so into my account before my gym payment comes in and overdraws? $83.50, baybee, and my (immediate) problems are solved.

How do I get myself into these spots?

Luckily GWB was there to get you out!

Not that anyone asked me, but my answer (as a theist, but not one who feels tied to any specific religion) to the "why is there cruelty if there's a God" question is this: If there is a God, and He created and monitors the universe, His purposes and motivations and abilities must be so far beyond anything human beings can conceive of as to render our judgment on anything He does meaningless. It's like we're roaches bitching about Raid, from the Big Guy's perspective. And there's no way we can even begin to understand why He's spraying the Raid around, but there is a reason. Maybe not one we'd like, but one that makes sense to Him.

This doesn't make Him cruel. It certainly doesn't make Him kind. It simply makes Him what He is.

God is the Orkin Man.

Or maybe God is the virus that makes us seek out cats.