Programming note

Long blog entry postponed due to a (non-serious) family illness. Cute Cat Friday up as normal shortly.

Cute Cat Friday 2013-07-20: Joni

Joni watches in alarm as we prepare our son's bath.

"You're going to put the kitten in THERE?!?"

Cute Cat Friday 2018-07-13: Joni

Yawn. Relax. (It's a hard life for a cat.)

What They Want Is Everything: Part 2

It's taken me a while to write this, because it's hard even to think about. It strikes close to home. I am referring to President Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their families.

There have been a few milestones in the sorry tale of ineptitude and hate that is the Trump administration. There are moments when anyone with an ounce of humanity, paying even minimal attention, must recognise: We are witnesses to evil.

Cute Cat Friday 2018-07-06: Joni

Guarding my book for me.

Cute Cat Friday 2018-06-29: Joni

Sleepy cat.

What They Want Is Everything: Part 1

The Trump administration has reached new depths of obscenity over the last couple of weeks. It's going to take me more than one post to address it.

First, consider the Supreme Court vacancy. Anthony Kennedy, appointed by Reagan but generally regarded as a moderate, has chosen to retire. The fact that his replacement will be appointed by a Republican President and Senate may or may not have influenced his thinking.

I'm not the first to observe that if your political system hinges on one octogenarian's decision to retire, it is a stupid political system.

Be that as it may, the reason things have come to this pass is the Democrats have lost and lost and lost.