I’ve just upgraded to a new version of WordPress. Any minute now I’ll get it looking the way I like, again.
Though this is a huge improvement over the old default template.
A little bit later: Oh dear, oh dear: my links don’t show up on the monthly archive pages. Later still: That’s a flaw of the new default template.
if you keep a cat, or keep two or three
Do yourself a favor: never buy Swheat Scoop cat litter. Some litters absorb pee and make a non-smelly solid lump. Swheat Scoop makes a smelly sticky lump whose consistency resembles that of my oat-cookie dough. It’s a bitch to clean up.
On another hand, World’s Best brand litter (made from maize) is excellent.
What happened to Joycelyn Yik’s comic strip The New Adventures of Bobbin? The domain has been down for at least a few days, and I’ve never known that to happen before.
Feb.20: She’s back! with a strip about about quirks of climate.
Recently I had occasion to sing a verse of “Rum, By Gum” and Jeff Riggenbach asked whether it came from The Lamplighters; I allowed as how that might well be the case. A spot of websearching now suggests the Mitchell Trio.
In the course of my research (ah, here comes the good part) I found two versions of the song with a remarkably large collection of verses.
Was it in a dream that I heard the rumor of a collection of ABBA songs performed in the style of Gordon Lightfoot?
Cartoon: the parable of the Good Samaritan, revisited
America’s Socialized Health Care by Lawrence Wilson M.D.
The War on Pain Sufferers by Sheldon Richman
Hunger for Dictatorship by Scott McConnell
Malcolm Gladwell writes:
Jettas are safe because they make their drivers feel unsafe. S.U.V.s are unsafe because they make their drivers feel safe. That feeling of safety isn’t the solution; it’s the problem.
I am reminded of various more politicized debates.
I drive a Camry, by the way, and my brother drives a Jetta. (See the table in the middle of Gladwell’s article.)