Violence Inherent In the System

As some of you — all of you? know — we’ve recently acquired two female kittens — now four months old — which means we get to see young mammals up close and personal.

Okay, forget seeing — that would be easy — what we actually get to do is experience young mammals up close and personal at around six to seven am. You see, for reasons known only to the psychiatrist that kittens can’t have, as soon as there’s the slightest hint of light out, the two girls decide it’s time to have a series of ...