Deep Thought

Man Will Never Be Free Until the Last King Is Strangled with the Entrails of the Last Priest

—Denis Diderot

Deep Thought

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!

― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

Words to live by.

My Life is Complete

This is perfect.

Deep Thought

This is beautiful, man.

You Have Not Lived

Until you have been Rick Rolled in the original Klingon:

I meant to post this yesterday, but whatever.

My Cats Have Achieved Sartorial Awareness

One of the Shabbos, and Yom Tov, traditions in my house is to give my cats some schnaps for the holiday.  By schnaps I mean catnip.

I will break out the bag of catnip, and cats will jump into the cardboard boxes they use as a lair, and I will dose them.

Both cats love catnip, but Destructo, the gray and white long hair on the right, is the much bigger stoner.  Meatball/Mousetrap is the black cat on the left.

During the Yom Tovim I realizes something, that the cats, Destructo in particular, has associated my entering the house wearing a coat and tie with getting catnip.  When he sees me in the getup, he runs to his box for his schnaps.

I didn't' realize this until I came in after Kol Nidre, evening services for Yom Kippur, and as soon as he saw the suit, his box was filled with a long-hair 17 lb cat expecting his dope.

He didn't get it, and while the cats get fed on Yom Kippur, they don't get drugs on Yom Kippur.  It feels disrespectful to give intoxicants to cat on that day.

I did give them catnip after the end of Yom Kippur though.  I did not want to find cat turds in my stereo headphones.

Tweet of the Day

The cat who was completely obsessed with my bump when I was pregnant is quite uninterested in the baby now that she's out. It's a weird way to find out that my cat is a Republican.

— Dr. Dana Ménard (@Shufflersunite) September 14, 2022

All cats are Republicans.

Tweet of the Day

I CANT HOLD THEM BACK MUCH LONGER pic.twitter.com/jdvwXjc2UF

— dont show your cat (@dontshowyourcat) July 22, 2022

This is one for the ages.

Megyn Kelly at Her Most Eloquent

It's a fart video, because I have to post fart videos:

It's probably Kelly's best journalistic moment.

Tweet of the Day

#LetsSwapOutStressFor a giant kitten invasion! pic.twitter.com/ysBrAYHEDl

— The Levity Dept. (@LevityDept) August 21, 2021

Oh no, 

There goes Tokyo, 

Go go Catzilla!

Kentucky + Rotary = Hilarity

Yes, I call them "Rotaries". You got a problem with that?

Also, no disrespect intended toward the people of eastern Kentucky.

Also, in the US, you turn right and yield to traffic in the circle.

Kawaii!!!

A nice morning stretch by a Pallas’s cat caught by a trail camera set in the Daursky nature reserve, south of Trans-Baikal region. Pallas's cats are some of the world’s most secretive and fluffiest. Video from December 2020 pic.twitter.com/FoXjVUh00u

— The Siberian Times (@siberian_times) March 1, 2021

What an adorable fur-baby.

H/t Naked Capitalism.

Tweet of the Day (Friday, Cats, and Rail, Epic!)

In the UK right now a train is delayed as a cat is sitting on the roof and refusing to come down. pic.twitter.com/I4WAC681Te

— RS Archer (@archer_rs) March 3, 2021

Cats rule this world, and we reside here only at their disdainful sufferance.

I kind of like it that way.

Dafuq?

I have a few questions...pic.twitter.com/DLsXtDlJuF

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 9, 2020

This is too weird for me.

My Life is Complete Now

Yes, this is Patrick Stewart ……… In a lobster suit ……… In a bathtub.

Tweet of the Day

I’m now positive that people who claim to have seen aliens have actually just seen baby owls. pic.twitter.com/CAr65NG9qR

— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) November 14, 2019

It's not aliens, it's baby owls!

Tweet of the Day

Guys I just found out that super chill cat was from a neighborhood in Istanbul and when she passed away in 2015 the residents missed her so much they made a statue of her sitting in the same spot and I am now dead my ghost is typing this pic.twitter.com/PJle1OJ5Yi

— August J. Pollak (@AugustJPollak) November 15, 2017

This is such a wonderful thing.

H/t naked capitalism.

Tweet of the Day

No matter the size of the cat, they all love a cardboard box... pic.twitter.com/aGdypaXIyf

— CNN Travel (@CNNTravel) October 28, 2017

H/T  naked capitalism

I Guess There's an Upside to the Opioid Epidemic*

WORLD MOURNS as Clippy the Microsoft Word Paperclip Dies from a Heroin Overdose

^*Not my line. As Michael Gat said this on Facebook.

It's Friday

Have a Cat GIF:

Of course, if you were to make the cat do this, there would be your blood spattered on the walls.

I'm on my to the Open Space Arts community theater Summer Playwrights Festival to watch my wife and son act, and my daughter direct.

If you are near Reisterstown, there are shows tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday, and the following Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Full disclosure:  this is not my cat.