See the pretty lady about to adopt a cat? Not me, the lady on the poster behind me. I’m just holding a kitten and wondering if I can get David to hold it and go all skwoogie for it. As it turns out, David managed to avoid entanglement, but it was a nice cuddly kitten and not all wiggly and ‘put-me-down’ like kittens often are. This was Sunday at the local Petsmart – they generally have cat adoption events by various groups on the weekend. We took stock of things tonight – we still have a litter box and a…
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Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith This book, like a lot of others in the “expose'” genre, attempts to explain the background of a small, intense, and very insular subset of the dominant faith of Utah. Actually, it attempts to explain the connections and rivalries between several similar but different subsets of same, and how they all disavow each other and the “mainline” faith. Oh, and how certain kinds of unethical, criminal, and horrific acts of violence and mayhem can somehow be justified by said faith(s). I grew up in Utah, so some of the…
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Jill, you were right about the lights in New Orleans being turned on just for the Presidential speech the other night: Daily Nightly: Friday Morning (Power) Line I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans warehouse district last night: there was rejoicing (well, there would have been without the curfew, but the few people I saw on the streets were excited) when the power came back on for blocks on end. Kevin Tibbles was positively jubilant on the live update edition of Nightly News that we fed to the West Coast. The mini-mart, long ago cleaned out…