I remember JZ talking about how her ginormous rabbit would confuse visiting cats. "Smells like prey, but looks like Godzilla. What to do, what to do..."
Not visiting cats, but our own cat. She was already bad-tempered and neurotic, but the rabbit just put her over the edge. She'd spend her every waking moment stalking the perimeter of the backyard, glaring at the rabbit and edging closer and closer until she got right up to him and realized (realized anew every single time -- she wasn't terribly bright) that he was (a) bigger than her and (b) placid and unafraid and not acting like a tender frightened morsel at all. The cognitive dissonance would send her fleeing in a panic back to the edge of the yard... where he would once again, from a distance, appear small and prey-like, and the circling and stalking would begin again.
I'd say the whole experience took years off her life, but that cat lived
forever,
just to spite us all.
This kitten messed with the wrong bunny.
I do kind of like the contrast in animal styles. The cat is all predatory and curious. The rabbit is all, "La la la. Whatever. Now I bulldoze you and...FUCKFUCKFUCK!"
Salon:
Why Bush hasn't been impeached
The truth is that Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors, far from being too small, are too great. What has saved Bush is the fact that his lies were, literally, a matter of life and death. They were about war. And they were sanctified by 9/11. Bush tapped into a deep American strain of fearful, reflexive bellicosity, which Congress and the media went along with for a long time and which has remained largely unexamined to this day. Congress, the media and most of the American people have yet to turn decisively against Bush because to do so would be to turn against some part of themselves. This doesn't mean we support Bush, simply that at some dim, half-conscious level we're too confused -- not least by our own complicity -- to work up the cold, final anger we'd need to go through impeachment. We haven't done the necessary work to separate ourselves from our abusive spouse. We need therapy -- not to save this disastrous marriage, but to end it.
We're now getting The Onion (print version) once a week ... last week's issue had an ad for a t-shirt that says "Stewart / Colbert '08" ... a ticket that would have the virtue of being funny on purpose.
I'll take Headlines I Never Thought I'd See for $1000 please, Alex...
Viagra reduces hamster 'jet lag'
The "little blue pill" given to treat impotence might also help people overcome jet lag faster, a new study in rodents suggests.
Hamsters that received small doses of sildenafil, sold under the name Viagra, adjusted more quickly to laboratory simulations of a six-hour time-zone change than animals in the control group.
The researchers found that a single dose of sildenafil helped the animals adapt up to 50% faster than usual. They believe that because a one-off dose had this large an effect in hamsters, the drug might offer a simple way to combat jet lag in people.
The problem of jet-lagged hamsters finally has a cure!
Of course, now we're gonna see a big upswing in hamster air-travel, so security lines will get even longer....
Salon finally catches up with the political technique known as The Big Lie.
Oy. Just repeatedly almost nodded off in a meeting. Could not help myself. Not quite a meeting, I guess. More a 3-person huddle in a cubicle. I don't feel sleepy, but I kinda didn't sleep last night, and am still working on my first food of the day.
And I have work to do that I don't think I understand.
Can someone who watched Heroes (and read the online comics) tell me if
the Israeli computer chick
is still alive?
