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Intelligence and Moral Sense

The other day, in my second-hand-tv watching (Husband is watching something, and I’m nearby, working or chatting with friends via computer) I got caught by a documentary on Octopi and how smart they are.

For the record, and so people understand… Well, I was going to type that Octopus is a delicacy in Portugal, but that’s not actually true. Portugal is — or was when I was growing up — a staple. You would get it if there was no decent fish. And mostly we ate fish — which thank you I hearti...

Pay Back

Today I’m going to post the two certificates. So, if you were due that (and anyone above $20 was, I think), well, please take it. If you weren’t, please don’t. (Yes, I know some crazy people will take them for nefarious purposes, but those crazy people probably donated to take them for nefarious purposes all so they could “nefar” and I’m not in the mood to even imagine what those purposes would be.)

And if you saw a version of this post with more stuff earlier, you’re right. It’s another fine...

Paying the Piper

Boy, I’m glad I warned everyone that last year’s fundraiser would be a mess. But I never imagined it would be a mess to get the electronic swag to people.

THAT was idiotic because I had in the past tried to start a “mailing list” and got the email bricked up. Now they just don’t send things out. Which is hilarious when you consider how many spam items fill my mailbox every day. Apparently hotmail only lets spam-spam through, not well meaning people who have had an account forever trying ...

Divide and Conquer

Yes, the left’s technique, when trying to destroy a country is always divide and conquer. Find or CREATE a malcontent minority that you can use to tell everyone how the country/polity sucks because of how they treated this minority. Then weaponize the minority itself against the majority. Or find a minority (you know which, usually) and blame them for all the trouble fear and strife in the country and make destroying them the sacred mission of the country, while weaponizing everyone else ag...

Book Promo and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book promo

*This is not an excuse for this being late. It’s a “argh” stop giving me things I didn’t ask for, directed at wordpress. No really. WordPress decided to add an experimental “AI assistant” to help me “write your posts.” So, something I don’t need, which gets invoked whenever I want to do something more than image and text, or even to format a blog. And when it comes up, it bolixes everything. Not just wordpress, which hangs up on an infinite loop, but also the browser. For something...

On Being An Imaginary Creature

I was born female in a country that was profoundly patriarchal and, back then, patriarchal without guilt. So, it was acceptable to make jokes about women being dumber than men. And it was acceptable for teachers to assume you were dumb because female.

Most of these things amused me. It was always fun in mixed classes after the first test to watch the teacher look at my test and at the boys in the class trying to figure out what parent was so cruel as to name their son a girl’s name.

I ...

Sniffing The Air

I was going to write something completely different today, but woke up with an uneasy feeling.

You know, like when you’re walking in a natural setting and everything goes deathly quiet. Or when you’re in a city and suddenly every non-licensed vendor starts rolling up their blankets to shove away as if they’d never been there.

No, it’s not that there are massive and very strange brawls going on in the comment section of most “right” blogs. (Right being anyone to the right of Lenin.) Th...

Alive and Well

Promo PROBABLY Wednesday (there are reasons.) You see, I sat at the wrong computer to check on something else, and then the kittens sat on me. I can’t get up. I tried, honest. It’s been…. 4 hours. Here I am. I have stuff to do….

If I die, tell people it was feline murder… They’re so cute and happy and and and WARM. I can’t. I just can’t.

Have some kitten pictures, to cheer you up.

This is Indie-Pol, cat-god of Indianapolis (Look at his name!) and he likes his tummy rubbed.

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When It All Comes Down To Memes

The War On Humans

If our current “elites” were Lizard Aliens, bent on destroying us before we move off planet, what would they be doing differently?

Go on. Think about it. I’ll wait.

Bet you that you didn’t come up with anything. Or at least anything that doesn’t go “But then again.”

Oh, you might have come up with some reason they’re not lizards. The lizard is there for funsies. They seem very upset about a warming world, so perhaps they’re ice moles or something. All the same —

It is not my p...