Heh. That's how my cats usually react. But every once in a while, you get one that's a lot more like most dogs are about it:

Oh my god, the noises the mother whales make when they're separated from their young. It sounds awful no matter what species you're talking about, but then when you learn that orca mothers and children usually stay together for their entire lives in the wild, it just makes it worse.

Blackfish is on Netflix now. I watched it the other day. I'm not usually a huge animal rights person, and I don't mind zoos, so I was thinking I wasn't going to be very strongly affected by it. Man, was I wrong. By the time I got to the part where Sea World was forcibly separating very young orca babies from their…

Honestly normally the Tournament of Roses is boring as fuck. PETA gets my Seal of Approval this time.

They are killing endangered species, though. They have become a huge worry in places with delicate ecosystems, but even in the US they're decimating a number of species. It doesn't really fall to the "natural cycle of life" when there are so very, very many cats out there that are protected by their human companions,…

They kill regardless of need and yes it is extremely harmful for the environment and the cats. Even farms in my area don't want the farm cats outdoors all the time. It's natural instincts for the cats to hunt but that doesn't mean that the rest of the environment can survive the unnecessary dead animals in the…

I went through a "snake phase" as a kid, and I had a pet boa, a ball python, and some geckos (okay, it was more an exotics phase.)

My sister is a herpetologist and while she knows many really great reptile hobbyists, when people don't know what they are doing shit goes downhill quick. Florida has a terrible problem with invasive Burmese pythons that started because people were releasing their pets into the wild. They are better at hunting than…

I like when the real cat tries to sniff the robots butt. "This doesn't smell right!"

I was actually excited when I saw the title of the article because I thought - oh the potential! Then I started reading and all this VERBIAGE got in the way and I looked up to see who wrote it....

Meanwhile, at Jezebel

Does anyone else recall Marc Maron's (very old) anecdote regarding Jay Mohr? Apparently, he remembers that Louis CK said of Mohr jealously that comedy was supposed to be for the ugly guys. In other words, Louie felt that Mohr shouldn't be able to have both talent and good lucks. Well, as it turned out, none of that…

Jaysus, he looks great. What a relief. I was expecting to see some crumbling visage that would give me the sads and make me feel old. My grandmother always told me that people with bone structure like that, with the high cheekbones age better. Something about it being like a strong foundation of an old house. I think…

This is what he looks like now, 30 years later. I don't even want to know what kind of deal he made with the devil.

And those cheekbones!

Can I just offer up the thought I have every time I hear this song by a-ha?

Amen, amen, and amen.

VW did it so much better.