We have two cats, one of whom Buffy is quite normal, and friendly. Maggie on the other hand has always been very skittish. Any sudden movements, and she takes off. This means it’s really hard to brush or otherwise groom her. This is a real problem because she has really long hair and she’s not [...]
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We’re watching a film right now, called Mr. Conservative. It’s a documentary about Barry Goldwater made by his granddaughter. Goldwater is a fascinating character and had some really interesting and apparently contradictory views. He was very much pro-choice and stated publicly that there is nothing wrong with having gays in the military. On the other [...] I hesitate to mention this story because some people might be tempted to sign up for the Canadian Armed Forces as a result, so I’ll start with Gerry stay where you are! It’s not worth it! Having said that, Reuters is reporting that Canadian forces battling the Taliban in Afghanistan are having difficulty dealing with [...] Shrub has finally gotten his wish and been invited to the World League of Despots. You can read all the details at the Guardian. I would have to agree that between his insistence on torture, unsupervised spying, arbitrary detention without trial or legal counsel, abducting innocent people and sending them to third countries for interrogation [...] We’ve now had five years of the shrub doctrine. The US military went into Afghnistan with a skeleton crew and relied on the local insurgents to displace the Taliban. Notice I didn’t say defeat! They were displaced in power, but almost none of the leaders were captured and most of the fighters just blended back [...] When I was a kid, the year after the release of the first Star Wars movie, a television series appeared called Battlestar Galactica. The show was not much of a success at the time. The effects were not particularly impressive, the dialog made George Lucas’ writing look good and beyond the basic premise of the [...] It’s so nice to the republicans imploding. They blame everyone else for the own faults and now it’s all coming back to bite them in the ass. They come out make statements about democrats using this Foley mess for partisan political gain. But they are the ones who suppressed the whole story for somewhere between [...] The Ypsilanti High School drama club has been invited to participate in the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next summer. This is a huge honor being only the third ever school from Michigan invited to participate in the festival. There’s just one problem. In order to send the cast and crew to Edinburgh for [...] |
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