Month March 2008

Mrs Moms was busy last night

Our foster cat gave birth to five kittens last night. They’re healthy, she’s no doubt greatly relieved to no longer have a midsection the size of a plump football. When the kittens are six weeks old, they’ll all go back…

Give prisoners internet access

The Internet is now as essential to American education, employment, and productivity as grade school. If we want people to have any chance of building productive lives for themselves after they get out of jail, we simply must give them…

Saber rattling

Chavez warns of war with Colombia. Dead rebel’s laptop shows Chavez is funding rebels, Colombian police say.

Green luxury homes torched

Fires gutted four multimillion-dollar model homes in a Seattle suburb on Monday, and authorities found a sign purportedly left by eco-terrorists that mocks claims that the homes were environmentally friendly. “Built Green? Nope black!” said the spray-painted sign that bore…