Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Today is Christabel and my second anniversary. My gift to her: a plastic ball that rolls down the stairs quite satisfactorily, which I foun...

Christabel, taken today. Because why not?

Christabel and I went to the vet for her shots. She was not best pleased.

Today is Christabel and my 1st anniversary. I plan to give her as a present some of her favorite toys by letting in a few flying insects fo...

Bumper sticker seen yesterday: “I achieved my learning goals at Salvador Elementary.” Thanks a lot, Britain, for making me have to side with...

John McCain and his aged catamite Lindsey Graham have an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal , mostly about how “preventive detention” o...

First line of a story in the London Times (it’s kind ofdownhill from there, so don’t bother reading it): “A man who found a 20p coin showin...

Will people stop dying already? First Patrick McGoohan, now John Mortimer, Claude Berri and KHAAANNNN! John Oliver on The Bugle: Bush apolo...

More personal ads from the London Review of Books (the complete WIIIAI collection of LRB personals is here .) After that, because it’s our...

Did I really just wash off a rubber band my cat dropped on the bathroom floor, rather than throw it out, because it’s her favorite rubber ba...

is that When it grows up, it’s always a cat. (Ogden Nash) The same could be said of cat-blogging, but I thought some of you must be on the e...

The White House claims that retroactive immunity (which they call “retroactive liability protection”) for the telecoms “does not immunize a...

Language Log takes Bush to task for selectively quoting from a Thomas Jefferson letter in his July 4th speech yesterday in a way that disto...

would just as soon that 1) the fireworks would stop, 2) and while she’s hiding from the fireworks under the chair, someone wouldn’t take f...

Meet my new cat. Currently hiding behind the couch. Don’t take it personally. She’s friendly, really. Been here four hours now. She’s abo...