Don't Panic

Like everyone else, or a fuckton of us at any rate, I’m feeling overwhelmed. I feel like a sheet of pastel paper that’s been drawn on so heavily, taken so many layers of chalk and oil that any new impressions are repelled. It's hard to take in all the new horrors.

The Iran backed Houthis have captured Yemen’s Red Sea coast and asked Pedo not to get involved. Donnie woke up long enough to grunt, “sure, ok, no prob” before nodding off again. Only problem is, his buddies, the Saudis really want him to get involved – like drop a few bombs type involved. Will they need to remind their pants shitting puppet that they didn’t “invest” $2 billion in little Jared’s “private equity firm” for his father-in-law Prez to just sit there in his full diaper, napping.

I didn’t know who the Houthis were until this morning. Sure, I’d heard of them but that’s about it. Now they’re a major player on the board.

Here at home, at the Trump rally in Dallas, Vice Prez JDouche Vance objected to the GOP being described as racist while rolling out the usual, tired, gross immigrant clichés. 

“We were tired of being called ‘racist’ for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier, and poor, and less safe, and less prosperous.”

Christ almighty!

Then Texas’s ridiculously embarrassing senator Rafael “Ted” Cruz came out to push the hilarious old lie that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed want to establish Sharia Law in NYC and the US. Considering Cruz's state is well into launching the christian nationalist version of that, that’s pretty rich.

AND unsurprisingly Russia is still attacking Ukraine. It seems jerky boy Jared and Stevie Witkoff, the real estate investors that Trump sent to negotiate a peace deal (jesus fucking christ!), have failed.  (Show of hands as to who's surprised. C'mon now, don't be shy. What? Anyone? ... No one? Yup. Didn't think so.)

United States envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have been seen as embarrassing and amateurish after their latest attempt to secure a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine, suggesting that European patience with the US administration of Donald Trump is running out.

“Jared Kushner’s incompetence was on full display this weekend,” wrote Slate magazine. “The Witkoff-Kushner circus act is an embarrassment,” said the Daily Telegraph, while the Financial Times titled its story, “Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism.” (source) 

GEE, I’m 💥 SHOCKED 💥 simply stunned, I tell you!

Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine

They’re nothing but fifth rate holiday timeshare salemen and should go back to scamming swampland to retirees.

So … yeah, I’m fucking full up and weary. I wish I was still a coffee drinker. I wish I still drank more than the odd thimbleful of whisky. A full strength Irish coffee would really hit the spot about now.

I believe it’s a good day to ignore the news. Maybe it’ll ignore me too?

Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in the process of decay. The bigger the bombs, the quicker it will be done. The world is visually too hideous for one to make the attempt to preserve it. Let it go.
~ Paul Bowles, Pages From Cold Point and Other Stories

Okay, that’s a little TOO bleak.

Don't Panic.
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Always wise advice.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
~ Simon Sinek

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. 
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

For fast acting relief, try slowing down. 
~ Lily Tomlin

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Bits and Pieces

Here's something that would bring me absurd amounts of joy: 

Legal scholars say Trump’s ICE deportation policies can be used by a Democratic president to arrest Elon Musk on the street by masked agents in an unmarked van, hold him in a concentration camp for weeks, confiscate all his money, and deport him to Sudan.
~ Halfway Cafe 

John Fetterman is the first rat in history to jump on to a sinking ship.
~ Covie on Threads

The man — elected as a Democratic senator — spoke at a Trump rally (masquerading as a Republican “midterm convention” – HAH!) which actual Republicans made every damn effort to avoid because they don’t want to be associated with Toxic Trump.

Democrats need to win enough so that we have 52 seats in the Senate. John Fetterman must be made irrelevant for the rest of his term. 

Yesterday was the anniversary of when Charlie Kirk was shot. Huh. I thought that was necks week.

I see people saying they miss him. But, one dude definitely didn't miss him. 

I hope the White House remembered to leave out fireworks, sparklers, skintight leather pants, and the VP for poor, “grieving” widow Kirk last night. 

Be sure to have a flat white with a single shot in Chuckles’ memory, k?

Two things that never get old:

1.   Jokes about Charlie Kirk
2.   Charlie Kirk

I understand Drowsy Donnie's promised to send each of the rubes 5Gs if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate after the midterm elections. Yep, he's blatantly bribing voters which is, ya know, pretty much totally illegal. Like that matters in this administration with this Supreme Court and "Justice Department." But also ...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha*gasp*hahahahahahhahahahhahahaha*gasp*hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha*gasp*hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha!!! 

Pedo promised us all $2,000 tariff dividend checks last November. Ya know, almost 10 months ago. Mine hasn’t arrived yet. Has yours?

How ‘bout those DOGE dividend checks? Trump and his bestie Elon promised us checks in the neighborhood of five grand EACH. What did you do with yours? What? You haven’t seen it yet? Yeah, me neither.

Him and his crew of grifting-ass, larcenous liars pledged we’d be saving on groceries, gas, rent, heating, water, clothing, and other miscellaneous bills too. That seven thou should be spare change just kickin’ around to invest, spend on a holidays, pay unexpected bills, help out a friend or whatever.

Is the faithful MAGA cult motivated by this new empty, stale promise of you-know-it’s-never-gonna-show-up five grand check? Do they believe him enough to get out of their La-Z-Boys and go vote against their own interests (HELLO farmers!) again? They haven’t gotten the first seven thousand — do they honestly think, after they’ve paid for shit-geysering groceries and $5/gallon gas, that a big check from King of Lies Donnie is gonna magically appear? Do they believe Pedo will miraculously transform ‘Murica into some fantastical whites only 1950s Father Knows Best/Leave It To Beaver heaven (but with porn, hookers, and strip clubs — they’ll be neatly tucked out of sight)? He’s had six years and it’s not looking so promising, huh?

“shit, in fact, has been fucked up and stuff for a good long while now — and the problem with shit being fucked up and stuff for this long is that eventually, you forget that shit isn’t supposed to be this fucked up.”
~ Jeff Tiedrich 

Yes, precisely!

More Fun with Animals

I, down to a cellular level (no, really!), feel that today is a good day for more random animal facts! Fer instance, did you know ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have EVER lived! 🐋 They’re larger than any of the dinosaurs.

Let’s look at the argentinosaurus. 

They were GIANT-ASS motherfuckers. Coming in at 100-130 feet long, 70 feet tall, and weighing 80-100 tons. They’re definitely a bit longer than our whaley buds (who measure 80-100 feet long) and argy’s have got it all going on in height (blue whales are a mere 15 feet tall) BUT in the weight category whales are the clear winners. Female blue whales can weigh up to ~209 tons!

Ants don't breathe through lungs – they don’t even have lungs. So how do they breathe? They have small openings called spiracles along the sides of their bodies. This also means that ants don’t have noses. Not a lot of call for rhinoplasty specialists in the ant community, I guess. 🐜

🦇 The bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal and weighs less than a penny. It’s full government name is "Kitti's hog-nosed bat" which is way less cute, don’cha think? They’re only found in Thailand and Myanmar and have a body no larger than a thumb.

Photo by Lori Mazzuca

Dolphins and humpback whales apparently play together. Waddyaknow? Posted on Threads by Sarcastic Ferret (they can also be found on TikTok as FerretFluff):

Researchers in Hawaii documented bottlenose dolphins approaching humpback whales and allowing the whales to lift them completely out of the water on their heads. In one encounter, the same dolphin was lifted six times in 8.5 minutes. It didn't try to escape, it stayed on the whale's head, slid back into the water, and came back for another ride. 🐬

The researchers considered several explanations, including aggression, but concluded that interspecies play was the most likely one. So apparently if you're a dolphin and you find a 30-ton whale, one possible reaction is: giant fucking water slide.

The Wedge-tailed Eagle has the largest verified wingspan of any living eagle, reaching up to nine feet. It’s Australia's largest bird of prey. 

Corn Snakes don't have ears, they hear through their lower jaw, the bone of which responds to sounds in much the same way as the bones of our inner ears. 

Fascinating. I wonder if there could be any human application. YES, of course I’m wondering if there’s a way to science back some of my damn hearing!

The rock hyrax is the closest living relative to the elephant. They weigh 4 -12 pounds and measure 12 to 23 inches long. These are the elephant’s VERY tiny cousins. The hyrax, like their giant kin, have tusks. How CUTE!

Manatees control their buoyancy by farting. Ya know, with my ultra serious balance problems, I should try that. Secondary benefit would be that I’d clear the room. Fewer people I'd have to deal with and shit – a misanthropic introvert’s dream. Ya know?

A tortoise shell is part of its skeleton NOT a literal shell the body hides in. Bugs Bunny lied to me! I feel so betrayed. 🐢

A female Papuan epaulette shark (AKA the walking shark) at the Tennessee Aquarium recently laid fertile eggs after spending years in isolation, resulting in a healthy pup believed to be a clone of its mother.  🦈

Penguins have knees. 🐧

Hippos can't actually swim, too dense, they actually walk/bounce on the riverbed. While they nap underwater, they have a reflex that allows them to surface for air and stay asleep. 🦛

African painted dogs, AKA African wild dogs, AKA painted wolves, have one of the highest predation success rates of all animals at 80-90% success (a lion in contrast is about 25%, while dragonflies top the list at 95%).

They’ve also been known to take care of their sick, wounded, and elderly instead of discarding them like many other large social carnivore groups (including humans). Their survival is based on teamwork through and through.

So then, they’re more civilized than humans.

Frogs can breathe through their butt and lobsters pee out of holes on their faces. 🐸

A Rhinoceros can run and swim faster than a human so if you're competing in a triathlon against a rhinoceros, you’d better be really good in the bicycle stage. 🦏

When wombats are threatened, they'll retreat to their dens and use their butts as a "door". Their butts are actually a rock-hard, bone-dense shield made of fused plates, cartilage, and dense fur that protects it from predators and helps it survive in the wild.

An octopus has 3 hearts and 9 brains. Each arm has its own brain allowing it to taste move and react independently. 🐙 I want brains in all my appendages! I could def use a few spares.

 Now then, don't you feel enlightened, more rounded, and well informed about some of our fellow Earth dwellers? Also, didn't your joie de vivre get just the teensiest of boosts? Mine sure did.

‘scuse me, I’m gonna go watch more Dean Schneider big cat videos. He’s the dude from Zurich who dropped out of finance, moved to South Africa and established the Hakuna Mipaka Oasis, an animal sanctuary for rescued wildlife. It includes lions, cheetahs, capuchin monkeys, meerkats, hyenas, and reptiles. The location is kept private AND no tourists are allowed in. YEAH Dude!

Whoppers and Cosplay

Pedo’s latest whopper I (9/11 Edition) – big strong firefighters (undoubtedly with tears in their eyes) lifted him up, running with him in their powerful arms to safety.

"We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big strong guys — I'm not the smallest guy in the world — they grabbed me under the arm, said, 'Got to get out of here,' and they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do," he said. "I'm big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, 'Fellas, I can run myself,' but they were amazing. But they thought it was coming down. It didn't come down.” 

… There are supporting accounts that a fear of the building collapsing prompted evacuations, though none specifically say Trump was there. (source) 

Did this happen? Did he, as he claims, send 100+ of his workers down to help the rescuers at Ground Zero? We only have the word of a pathological liar, a complete self aggrandizing fabulist, so I’d say it’s safe to assume the answer is a resounding NO.

Trump did go down to Ground Zero but it was two days later, not "right after" as he said. Why? He was glad handing – making sure he was seen. That's it. 

Question – did those big strong firemen have tears in their eyes? They usually do in his big-strong-men fantasies. 

I only mention it but Trump really seems to have a thing for the body builder/strapping workmen/Jack Kirby styled superhero physique. This seems to totally get his motor running. Has he ever gone a single monologue without throwing in a big-strong-man fairy tale? 

Now then, it’s absolutely clear that Pedo despises women and girls — feels we’re lesser beings, not necessarily human, more like pets or maybe just ornaments and status symbols. Beyond that we’re only useful as pleasure giving devices, like strokers or sleeves. Also, rape, remember, is a violent act – it’s not about sex. It’s a deep, controlling, tortuous assault. It’s about conquest, dominance, power, humiliation, punishment. It’s an act of hate. Prez Pedo is an adjudicated rapist with a multitude of other victims/survivors in his wake. He does NOT like us!

My opinion? Pedo is, at the extreme least, bisexual (leaning heavily toward gay) or would be in a different world.

Let’s imagine … in another life, another timeline, where being bi or gay is just a way of being — it was never, ever criminalized, marginalized, or othered and his parents were sane, warm, reasonable, supportive, and loving humans. I know, it’s a wicked HUGE stretch but bear with me and my wild imagination.

Without the pressure to enter the business world and use a brain he clearly doesn't possess, little Donnie grows up to become quite the licentious little queen and a very popular party boy.

He fucks and gets fucked by anything that moves or stays still for five minutes. Because he can bang (and be banged by) all the big strong men (tears in eyes optional?) that he wants AND he never has to feel like a complete failure at business stuff, he does NOT become a deeply unstable, insecure, malignant narcissist, with horrifically tacky taste.

Little Donnie is also so busy being a promiscuous party boy at Flamingo, Crisco Disco, The Mine Shaft, and, of course, Studio 54, he never develops an interest in politics and never becomes president. He doesn't spawn a family of dimwitted, clownish criminals either.

God, I just love a happy ending!

In the News

Remember Alligator Alcatraz – the Florida concentration camp that finally fully closed in July of this year?

Immigration advocates said the tents were never safe or humane for holding people. Detainees at the facility have talked about their difficulty accessing lawyers and described poor physical conditions, including worms in the food, toilets that didn’t flush, floors flooded with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects everywhere. (source) 

Only one-in-four of the more than 6,700 men who were held at the camp had actual criminal convictions versus civil immigration violations (if that). The most serious of these convictions were traffic offenses and this isn’t including driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, hit-and-run or vehicular manslaughter. 

Where are these mostly innocent men now? //shrugs// Alligator Alcatraz was state-run – prisoners don’t necessarily appear in databases run by federal agencies. Governor Ron DeSantis is every bit as cruel, corrupt, and slimy as Trump. Florida didn’t even have a system to look up those imprisoned at the camp. These assholes would have made halfassed Nazis. 

Official word from this lying-ass administration is that all prisoners were transferred to other concentration camps. I don't believe them. How many are in Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, South Sudan or Rwanda? How many were thrown off a boat and told to swim? How many innocents are dead because of Trump and his eager-beaver, bloodthirsty henchmen?

Wanna know where the concentration camps are in your area? Check out the interactive maps and other info at the Freedom for Migrants site.

Meanwhile in Paris, the staff of the Eiffel Tower went on strike because women employees were asked to step out of sight during a visit by a Hindu group. Yes, really. In Paris of all places.

The Tower reopened today. The company who runs the site, SETE , hasn’t said “I’m sorry” but they have, more or less, admitted they whoopsied. They acknowledged that the group (Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha) had requested the Saturday visit be organised to limit “interactions with women.” SETE said “these conditions should not have been accepted.” Yeah DUH!

Betcha they wouldn’t have said a thing if this hadn’t made international headlines. 

AND … I wonder how much good this will do. 

Twelve countries including Britain, Canada and France said on Tuesday, September 8, that they would slap sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, after increasing attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages in the occupied territory. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden also plan to limit trade with the settlements, the nations' foreign ministers said in a joint statement. (source) 

The European Union is Israel’s biggest trading partner. Goods from the West Bank make up a small fraction of what’s traded but maybe this sort of symbolic act will lead to more. Hitting these fuckers in the wallet is always a good place to start.

Can we hit Prez Pedo in the wallet? I mean, it’s really the only place he feels real, lasting pain. Yes, he’s a desperately insecure, monster narcissist but his bank account is his heart and blood. You know, he’s not helping out midterm Republican candidates in need even though he has $400mill in his Super Pac. What’s he gonna spend it on? My thought is that he’s not going to spend it at all. That cash will disappear into some offshore account that the old fraud can access if and when he needs to make a fast retreat with not-Ivanka (the insane diaper nurse) to a non-extradition country.

Robert Reich thinks the old fraud’s gonna spend it on a self-aggrandizing rally tour like he did in his first term. Why? Because everything is always all about him. Yes, IF he does these rallies that he doesn’t have the physical stamina for or the cracked showmanship left to pull off, he’s going to generate massive humiliating press for himself and the entire Republican Party. 

It’d be a gift to the Democratic Party. Do it, Donnie. Do it.

Little Miss Cranky Pants

Well, I woke up in a my-aren’t-we-just-a-precious-gift-to-humanity mood this morning. I’m dangerously teetering on the precipice of haughty, arrogant, and despotic. (possibly I'm a cuddly, mostly lovable and only occasionally firing squad-worthy tyrant?)

Mae West’s line from I'm No Angel comes to mind – “Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape.” I’m, seriously now, having to stop myself from imperiously directing Cake to fetch me my box of truffles. Yeah, somehow I don’t think my sweet mini panther’s gonna comply.

Cake said "Get your own damn chocolates, bitch.”
Hmmmph.

So what’s up with the grouchtastic mood this morning? Got me hangin’. I slept great and had pleasant, uncomplicated dreams. There’s absolutely no reason other than the usual:

• We live in a time when the Republican Party is run by money and power hungry, soulless, grifting pedophile, racists, who bomb schoolchildren and fishermen as a distraction from their other crimes.
• While my health’s improving/getting less stupid, I’m now back at the bottom of the physical rehab hill AGAIN. Jen and I leave for our little Iceland holiday in two months. I need to be able to walk at least four blocks (with my walker) at a go before then. Me and Sisyphus – we’re fucking besties.

On top of this – the weather’s beginning to change. It was 49 goddamn degrees when I woke up this morning. I’m gonna have to dig out the autumn quilt and flannel sheets. Have I not suffered enough?! 

Fer fuck’s sake, I HAD TO WEAR SOCKS YESTERDAY! THIS is how annoyed I was about that – I wore them with sandals. Yes, I looked like an old person (to be fair, I AM old) but I am NOT that old (yes ... I am) OR ready for fall. Okay, I may have ruined the old person look since these were my cartoon sushi socks worn under my tie dye sweats. Also, I was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an octopus playing the drums. So, I have the dress sense of a 4-year-old – fucking sue me, aight?

Am I a fashion plate or what? *ahem* I think it’s safe to assume that Ten loves me for my mind, NOT my sartorial statements or general savoir faire.

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist.
~ Alfred Nobel

You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
~ Ted Danson

I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn. Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientist waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week. On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.
~ Celia Rivenbark 

I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
~ Augusto Pinochet

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle

Speak when you are angry—and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Grumpy was my favorite dwarf.

There’s a New Map in Town

Mercator projection

Growing up, going through school, the maps we saw in our Social Studies classes were all Mercator projection maps. The problem with the Mercator map, which was created for ship navigation, is that it makes northern regions appear disproportionately large, while Africa and other places closer to the equator appear smaller than they really are. They may work a treat for sailors but they give the rest of us a pretty skewed view of our planet.

Togo's Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said maps are far more than simple representations of geography.

"Maps shape our understanding of the world. They guide education, nourish the imagination, and influence collective perceptions," (source) 

So, there’s a relatively new map out and it’s absolutely fascinating. It’s the Equal Earth projection map. It’s an equal-area, pseudocylindrical world map that shows continents and oceans at their true sizes relative to each other.

At Al Jazeera there’s a quiz:

Can you guess the real size of each country on the new world map?

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

I played and, surprisingly, got eight out of ten right. Maybe most stunning to me was the Greenland/Algeria question. Which is bigger? I mean – c’mon – on all the maps we’ve been looking at since we were tiny tots, Greenland is HUGE, right? It looks to be about the same size as the entire continent of Africa and Algeria’s just one country on the continent. OF COURSE Greenland’s bigger, right?

Wrong!

Algeria measures 2,381,741 square kilometers in size. Greenland is 2,166,086 square kilometers.

The United Nations feels it’s wise for schoolchildren and people in general, to have a reality based picture of the planet. As much as I’d love to live in a fantasy world of my own invention, I’m down with the U.N. going with actuality.

To address this, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted 164 to 1 on Friday to adopt a resolution promoting the Equal Earth projection, which shows continents in their true proportions, as an alternative to Mercator.
~~~

Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer, cosmographer
 and cartographer. Creator of the 1569 world map.

The United States was the only country to vote against the resolution calling the measure a “radical ideological project”. (source) 

Emmmm, given that our ambassador to the U.N. is Mike Waltz, the completely moronic Trump toady who included a reporter in an insufficiently secured group chat discussing war plans, I’m unsurprised that we were the single no vote. So, the U.S. is the only anti-reality nation. Yeah, that’s a real shocker, huh? 🙄

I only mention it but the U.N.’s resolution is not legally binding and doesn’t mean anyone’s got to give up their precious, inaccurate Mercator projections. The U.N. is just gently encouraging the use of a more accurate map.

Are you a teacher or a map nerd? Go to the Equal Earth website and download the file(s) (it’s FREE and shit!). You can then go to your local print shop and have them print it out. Yes, this will cost bucks but still, it’s cool, huh?

The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14 times larger than Greenland as it actually is. And wherever you live, the map has you covered. Download a choice of three versions centered on these regions: Africa/Europe, the Americas, and East Asia/Australia.

Other features include:

•  It’s free. Download the map and print as many copies as you want.
•  It’s big. The map measures 55” wide x 29” tall (1.4 x 0.74 meters). You can print it even larger thanks to the very high resolution.
•  Just enough detail.  The 2,600+ map labels provide geographic context without overwhelming you with too much information.
•  Professional design. With pleasing colors, readable type, and clear visual hierarchies, this is a map that you will want to look at. (source) 

Just FYI – the cost to print a 55” wide x 29” tall (1.4 x 0.74 meters) color map could run in the neighborhood of $60 - $75. Double that price if you want it laminated (which would be a smart plan if this is going up in a classroom).

Memeday

It’s been a hell of a week here in Smooth Brained Plutocrat Hell. Aren’t they all though?

Kakistocracy
     noun
government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.

What does that makes Trump, JDouche, Kegbreath, Nutlick, Roadkill Kennedy, Markwaynejoebobetc, nd all the rest? Why, it makes them piles of shit – AKA kakistocrats.

In other news dear little boy, Cake, has been diagnosed with diabetes. I did NOT know that cats could get diabetes! So far he’s responding well to the pill his doc prescribed. YEA! For now, we don’t need to worry about insulin. Jesus. My poor little, evil angel. 

I can tell he’s feeling better – he’s no longer peeing on the bed (YEA!) or sleeping on top of me AND he's back to annoying Ten. Cake communicates in a very direct, blunt manner. When he needs one of us to stop what we're doing (patting, brushing, skritching him) he'll give us a wee slap or, if we've failed to pay quick enough attention, a little bite. “STOP THAT WENCH! Didn’t you read my mind that I was done being cosseted?”

In lieu of more words, I give you memes and more of them. Hopefully some of them will make you laugh.

Tom Gauld