“Play, snack, nap. Fret never. Dread nothing. Seems pretty easy to me.”
Anti-evolution asserts itself…
Understanding anti-evolution, step-by-step:
1. My wife Cathy has been feeding feral cats in our neighborhood, depriving them of the natural evolutionary process of starvation. Denying them, even, of the opportunity to prey on some other sucker. She did not try to adopt the feral cats, to her credit, first because we already have seven cats, and second because they’re feral–which means skittish and really good at drawing blood.
2. One of the feral kittens, to get warm, climbed into the fan housing of my wife’s car.
3. The next morning, Cathy thumped the stuffing out of that kitten while trying to start her car.
4. Greg, the strong, silent type, wrestled the ding-dong kitten out of the fan housing.
5. Greg, because he really, really likes having sex and wants to continue having sex, did not strangle the kitten, even though it was sliding right under death’s door.
6. Instead, Cathy rushed the thumped-up kitten off to the vet.
7. The vet didn’t kill the kitten either, even though he doesn’t get to have sex with my wife.
8. Many weeks and many, many dollars later, the kitten was released from the veterinary hospital.
9. Because it is a feral kitten, completely unsocialized, my wife spent a lot more money on it on the way home from the vet.
10. Then she fell in love with it and gave it (her) a name: Nero Marquina.
11. Now we have eight cats.
12. Even so, the free food continues for the neighborhood feral cats, more and more of them every day…
Miss Chioux is helpful to me, at least. I have worked with her to do things as procedures, and she delights in knowing and doing what comes next. Death is what comes next for Marquina. All of us, including the little yearling Cleopatra Chioux, are lucky she was able to hold it at bay for so long.
In other news:
Housing Wire: Mortgage rates rise to 2.87% after jobs report.
CNBC: Rental bidding wars are heating up as the economy improves in a tight housing market.
Brad Polumbo: An Ivy League Analysis Just Destroyed Biden’s Biggest Argument for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.
Real Clear Politics: The Great Parent Revolt.
Christopher Rufo: Intersectional AmEx.
