Steve/Buddy Update.

The little black cat has gone to the vet and has been neutered and his wounds drained and debrided. After a couple of (miserable) days at Brendan and Jill's, he's at our house in a large cage, which we let him out of for most of the time.

He's friendly, purring, and facerubbing, although he's meowing to get out, as he was an indoor-outdoor kitty.

The neighbor across the back yard identified him as his cat - he's paying for the vet care, and we'll give him back when he gets his second round of FELV/distemper shots.

Drip, drip, drip...

...that's not water going over the levees in New Orleans. That's the *next* story about how bad of a vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin is.

Turns out, she used the mayorship of Wasilla, Alaska to advance censorship. According to the latest story from Time Magazine, she called up the librarian of the Wasilla Library and asked her to ban books.

The librarian, quite naturally, was aghast. But Palin decided that "If you aren't with me, you're against me, and you hate Jesus." She tried to have the librarian fired, just like she fired the rest of the Wasilla executive officers, most likely to replace them with her Christofascist friends.

This nearly led to her being recalled.

Sarah Palin is a familiar sight, but not at this high of a level of politics. She's the suburban/rural buttinski, convinced that her view is right to the absolute exclusion of all others, and afraid that others might try to escape the controlled environment of a fundamentalist Christian area through education or self-improvement. I wrote about one of them previously, and am aghast that one of these fundamentalist know-it-alls has been chosen to compete for the second-highest office in the land.