A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
– H.L. Mencken
Category Archives: off topic
OT: Election Day Quotable
OT: Adopt-a-Cat Month 2010
Reverting briefly to Catsignal’s original province, June is American Humane’s Adopt-A-Cat Month. Yes, this almost couldn’t be posted any later, but any time is a good time to adopt a cat.
The best writers have loved cats. Monica Wood in The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspirations for Writing gives us this list of literary cat lovers: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Christina Rossetti, John Keats, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Christopher Smart, Marianne Moore, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Doris Lessing, Rita Mae Brown, Carolyn Chute, and Nuala O’Faolain. So if you want to write seriously you should consider adopting a cat.
Wanting to be a good writer isn’t enough, of course. You must determine if a cat is right for you. Go through the checklist and make sure you’re on board.
Bringing a pet into your home must not be a frivolous matter; this is a life you would be trifling with. You must adopt a pet with the firm conviction that it is a lifetime commitment. Determine you will be the best pet lover ever for the whole length of the pet’s life, or don’t do it.
“How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
OT: FDA Warns No Bones for Dogs
The Food and Drug Administration today issued a consumer update warning dog owners not to give their canine friends bones. The list of possible complications is long and unpleasant. Read the FDA’s warning here, and dispose of the bones where the dog can’t get at them.
OT: Easter Basket
Is it just me, or is there something about a military-themed Easter basket, available at a big box retailer, that entirely — even willfully — misses the point?
