Muppet is a good early warning system for thunderstorms, as she starts acting paranoid before we can hear them. Not much else bothers her too much, so it's easier to pick up on than with your Average Scaredy Cat.

When the first loud peal of thunder sounds, that is audible to human ears, she scoots under the nearest Large Thing and stays there most sensibly.

Where have you found them online?? I so want to catch up with Good Wife and Fringe but haven't been able to find them on Netflix or Hulu. (iTunes is an option, but it's spendy.)

I bought the DVDs, so I'm not sure where you'd find them online. I bought season 1 when amazon had a sale a year or so ago and they were cheap. But then I just spent more on season 2 than I'd like. I think I'll also iTunes Season3, but yes, spendy is true.

I bought the DVDs, so I'm not sure where you'd find them online.

Sigh. Oh well.

I ran out of Luther on Netflix last week, so I'm looking for a new thing to catch up with.

So the Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, ran into a burning building and saved a woman's life.

I already liked him from that documentary series about Newark, but still.

The Forward, a Yiddish paper in New York, is reprinting some of their original Titanic coverage (translated into English.) [link] The reports of Isidor and Ida Strauss's deaths are heartbreaking.

Being a socialist paper, the Forward felt the need to go off on this digression in an other wise "just the facts" article:

The capitalist press is attempting to sing love songs to the great millionaire [John] Jacob Astor. They describe his heroic attempts to have others rescued, and he appears to have acted like a knight or a martyr. There’s no mention, however, of similar martyrdom and heroism of the poor, but from accounts, one can tell that hundreds of the poor evinced a calmer heroism than that of Astor.

Mr. Astor’s 19-year-old wife was rescued. The reader is reminded that she is not yet 20 years old and that her husband was close to 50. He divorced his first wife in order to be with this 19 year old. His 19-year-old son was best man at the wedding.

The capitalist newspapers are parading her about as if she were America’s queen. They excitedly report to us the happy event soon to come when she will become a mother and there will be a new little Astor.

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Actually, when I heard that Gibson's latest Anti-Semitism victim was Joe Esterhaz, my feelings on the subject were somewhat mollified. Those guys deserve each other.(even though anti-Semitism is never right, even applied to sexist douchebag screenwriters who think they're shocking.) Still, it is plain the man is a menace, and that his girlfriend should get some security, or release the hounds, or something.

Hey! Who doesn't want to work today? Yeah, me either! But alas, my desk is a mess from being at a workshop for the last 2 days. I have arranged 4 piles on my desk, plus my in-box - in addition, I have 3 sets of info to organize and get to my boss. So, 8 things I like to address today. I will give myself a break after I complete each one! THAT IS THE PLAN! JOIN ME IN SMALL REWARDS TO GET THROUGH THE DAY!

Can't we just play hooky instead? That sounds like the better option.

Happy Friday the 13th, y'all!

Allyson, that rant was a thing of beauty.

So the Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, ran into a burning building and saved a woman's life.

Whoever wants to run against him in 2014 better start looking for some lepers to heal.