Kitty Survivor

Oh, who doesn't love a good cat story.

"Smoka" was last seen on Aug. 9, the night that Fitzgerald's Flowers and the apartments above it burned, which included the cat's home.

For 26 days, there was no sign of Smoka in any of her old familiar haunts.

"Whenever my neighbor kicked the door in to get me out, she hid under the bed and that was the last I've seen of her," said Sandy LaPierre, Smoka's owner.

Then, as a crew from Starks Wrecking was tearing down and clearing away the collapsed shell of the building, one of the workers suddenly saw what looked like a head poke up from under a pile of rubble.

Geek-Nerd-Dork: A Helpful Guide

Here is a helpful Venn diagram for determining whether or not a person is a geek, a nerd, or a dork. The X where I would peg myself.

Politics is Not or Rather Should Not Be a Zero-Sum Game

The problem with the current state of politics is that politicians treat it as a zero-sum game. We are at a point where if one party says they support daytime, the other denounces daytime as the first step to socialism/fascism/armageddon/whatever. Honest debate is no longer accepted. Now I don't think that politicians of yesteryear were pinnacles of upstanding morals always looking out for the best interests of the country. However, I do think that there was less of an inclination to automatically oppose the views of the other party no matter what they were. There were more instances of pols working together or at least not saying, "Your idea is bad because you are in the opposing party" in a knee-jerk fashion.

How else can one explain much of the furor over Obama's speech to school children? We have people like Jim Greer, GOP chairman in Florida, throwing a fit over it, accusing the President of playing politics with kids. Guess what Greer has done in the past, though? Well, he's gone to schools to talk to kids and made jokes about Hillary Clinton. He also tell people that he has a simple explanation for kids on the differences between the two major parties.

"Republicans get up and go to work," he would tell his son. "Democrats get up and go down to the mailbox to get their checks."

That he has done this and can now turn around and claim the President of trying to "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda" is a clear example of "if I do it then it's good, but if they do it it's evil."

Politics should not be like this. It only hurts our nation.

Liberal Capitulation

What he said.

No good comes from appeasing a lunatic bully like Glenn Beck.