I was a weird kid.
I’m sure my mother must have often wondered whether her daughter was truly normal.
I’ve always been a huge word nerd. (Isn’t it great how that rhymes?) When I was a child of about the age of seven – long before the Dawning of the Age of the Internet – my parents [...]
Feb
21
Feb
11
What’s a Proft?
Category: Observations, Stupidity | Leave a Comment
I recently spotted this spelling fail over on The Local:
I usually don’t point out spelling and/or grammar mistakes, but it’s kind of hard to ignore a glaring typo in the middle of an article’s headline. How about a little professionalism, people?
Feb
5
Cats on a Slide
Category: Caturday | Leave a Comment
Just when I thought nothing could beat Cats on a Treadmill, along comes Cats on a Slide, courtesy of the good folks at Funny or Die. Everything about this video is freakin’ brilliant. The musical accompaniment couldn’t be better, and the fact that the cats are “taking turns” is just precious.
Cats on a Slide – [...]
Feb
5
It finally snowed today! It’s too dark to take pictures so here’s another form of proof. Weather Pixie and her little Weather Kitty are pleased, but their feet are probably freezing.
She usually puts on a coat and boots with the weather gets this cold, but for some reason she’s still wearing a crop top [...]
Feb
3
The seed of the abstinence-only until marriage “education” program was planted in the 1990s by former President Bill “I did not have sex with that woman” Clinton. It was fed and nurtured during the Bush Administration, despite the fact that every study conducted indicated that the program was a complete failure. Well over a billion [...]
Feb
2
I mean, it’s bad enough that a few wacky Christian Fundamentalists think the Harry Potter series of books is especially bad for children and shouldn’t be read by anyone. Not that they’ve actually read any of the books, but they’ve heard that they are full of witches and wizards conjuring up demons from Hell, worshiping [...]


