"The media treat it like a like a case of non-denominational shoplifting"
As temperatures hovered in the low thirties early morning, Tiny kept warm atop the kitchen counter register while Cat Whisperer Tuck murmured sweet nothings. "Twitter makes it almost impossible to surprise people with breaking news because they all already know...

The GOP establishment is the problem
Even as DIABLO (Democrat In All But Label Only) Dede Scozzafava (above) showed her true colors — after dropping out of the NY District 23 congressional race Saturday — when she "began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to...

Assimilating with panache
"I am a lion," oldest sister of the family next door explained as she and her siblings approached our front porch late afternoon on this Halloween Night, transmogrifying a Muslim headscarf into the golden mane of the King of the...

When you notice a cat in profound meditation*
"Call me Chinese. I mean they practically own us anyway," quips Glenn Beck. Tiny is not amused. *Blog title is excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats."

Give to strategic small-government candidates, not parties
There's something happening here. The anti-establishment protest song has been turned on its head as Tea Partiers find their voice: "People speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind/What a field-day for the heat/A thousand people in the street/Singing...