Eli and Pumpkin Mama agree.

Breeders can be worse than silly... they can be monsters.

Khmm, "demanding", not begging.. :-)

Humans of giant cats unite!

forest cat is beautiful. Maine Coon cat is beautiful. Bastard offspring of an unwed teenage mother cat and some alley cat is also beautiful. Gillespie would like you to know that every cat is beautiful, provided they stay the hell away from him and his turf.

Forest cat is beautiful, Maine Coon is beautiful, also. This is Mordecai Katz. He was rescued at the Humane Society, begging me to take him home. I complied.

It's not like you can't find some gorgeous looking animals at shelters either, I mean, look at this cat...

There are millions of homeless and shelter animals in need of rescue. People who breed even more cats and dogs—who often have health issues (this goes for all breeds, not just the toys like the wolf cat)—when there are already so many animals in need of homes are despicable, loathsome specimens of narcissism.

The Russian Revolutions are a great example of the first point - and the general trend of revolutions usually being followed up by civil wars - many in the February Revolution wouldn't consider Bolsheviks to be "their side" but, hey, they have the same goals for now. Then, a few months after the Emperor is removed,…

Huh. I guess cheetahs prosper after all.

*raises hand*

Indeed; I love all the wandering and slow sidetracks in the middle... real thoughtful stuff.

I would like to vote for Jason Momoa for the role of Shadow. I think he has the correct body type as well as a fun personality off screen.

Calling Centurion Rory!

This made me think of the new season of Trailer Park Boys (which is now on Netflix). Bubbles is instructing kids in the finer points of body checking but Ricky steps in to tell them how to pull the jersey over their opponents heads and finish 'em off with a spear to the head if the ref's not looking. Words to live…

Fuck you Russia, this is sovereign Canadian territory. Even though I am a pacifist through and through, any incursions into my native land would prompt me to violent, armed response. The world doesn't really understand how fiercely patriotic Canadians are.

i'm a big fan of the spear as well, especially the forms of Liuhe spear form.

just a quick note on armour, China almost throughout the ages, never got into platemail. most of it is brigandine and lamellar. scale and chain were never widespread, and plate was just unnecessary, which resulted in a lack of large zweihanders in Chinese swordmaking. the mainstay of Chinese melee weaponry were…

there's also a matter of bronze "swords" of Shang dynasty. their and Zhou's eventual downfall to the Qin was due to their use of less advanced bronze swords, which according to this article on Baidu(google translate seems to work fine for the link), they were original created to be used like daggers with only a full…

The Lord of Bones approves.