Number of comments: 1 We gathered together to ask the Lord's blessing Down East yesterday, and love was in the air. Our sis and her Barney II paused oven-side for a Pieta Moment with a twist, the son holding the mother up. We hadn't...' [...]
Number of comments: 1 "The daily news is like the wind-whipped whitecaps on the ocean, a lot of violent froth on the surface, dangerous to surfers and small craft, but having nothing to do with the larger movement of the sea," we quoted Baron... [...]
Number of comments: 5 In the wee hours we awoke to find Tiny (above inspecting the Thanksgiving Lite table yesterday morning) and Baby still fast a asleep. Normally they would have been up and at our eyes, ears, nose and throat with their jaws,... [...]
Number of comments: 3 "The Tribal Filter on Green News," Insight July 23, 1990. It's been nearly twenty years we've been calling out the warmenists and their media allies, wondering when, already, the truth would finally out. Now it finally has, as Drudge headlines...' [...]
Number of comments: 2 Because her fans demand it, a few shots from Tiny's latest fur fashion portfolio. (Tuck Willis photo) She had to spend the whole day yesterday at the vet having a Blood Glucose Curve, where they draw blood and check glucose... [...]
Number of comments: 7 Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often 'illusory and deceitful," reports Reuters. Compare Papa Ratzi's open invitation to engage...'" [...]
Number of comments: 5 "We're savoring the joy of bloggers, politicians and media types who think McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as running mate is the best thing since sliced sourdough bread," we captioned this image in our August 2008 post dissecting opponents' false... [...]
Number of comments: 7 Just another day on the couch for Goompa's Purrky yesterday, but we had our eye on a bigger prize, our pater familias's 90th birthday. We three children, two spouses and four grandchildren drove and flew in from points south and... [...]
Number of comments: 11 In medical news,Tiny was diagnosed with diabetes on Tuesday and is responding well to insulin injections (twice a day following meals). You start with a low dose, vet checks glucose level periodically, and then you adjust as indicated. Symptoms —... [...]
Number of comments: 10 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..." [...]
Number of comments: 9 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..." [...]
Number of comments: 8 "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... [...]
Number of comments: 3 "Call me Chinese. I mean they practically own us anyway," quips Glenn Beck. Tiny is not amused. Update: All animals all the time at Modulator's Friday Ark #267, now boarding. *Blog title is excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "The Naming of..." [...]
Number of comments: 8 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 songs...'" [...]
Number of comments: 4 Earl Grey, majestic lord of all he surveys. Putty in Tiny's paws. Seductive. Voluptuous. Wary of entering the inner sanctum. [...]
Number of comments: 6 Tiny's main squeeze Earl Grey stopped by early morning for a nip. After we suggested the feral fellow not enter the house, he scurried into Tiny's hosta blind to reconnoiter before heading off for parts unknown. "Obama has authorized 40,000..." [...]
Number of comments: 4 "Freedom from Fear" (left) and "Freedom from Want" are two of Norman Rockwell's "The Four Freedoms" series inspired by FDR's rousing wartime State of the Union address in 1941. Reproduced in four consecutive issues of The Saturday Evening Post in... [...]
Number of comments: 1 Being the object of a voodoo-doll puncturing. It's remarkably effective. Could we sue for physical deterioration caused by mental anguish? [...]
Number of comments: 4 Squirrels on the lawn, skunks in the border garden, raccoon kits clinging to the Silver Maple in the predawn, sparrows flocking in the lilac bush out front on a breezy afternoon. These crisp autumn days in Chelsea-by-the-Sea were made to... [...]
Number of comments: 4 "Barack Obama is the third sitting US President to be given the prize after Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson," The Times captions above image. It figures (see Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism). Kevin Lamarque/Reuters photo. Vanderleun trumps Drudge on Twitter:Drudgereport still... [...]
Number of comments: 3 "I feel better already, and Tiny is blissfully unaware of my concerns," we wrote in a message of thanks accompanying a donation to Angell Memorial, Boston's historic animal hospital and research center this afternoon. The contrast between the patient-centered service... [...]
Number of comments: 2 Gentleman caller Earl Grey stops by for an early-morning clowder and catnip klatch with his coy mistress Sweet Tiny Pea. Update: "I LOVE the new post," imails our sis: She: Clowdering seems to be the way to keep romance alive.... [...]
Number of comments: 5 He loves, and she loves … Tiny and Earl clowder the light fantastic this afternoon as foggy overcast gives way to "blue skies smiling at me." Even as Tuck sands and paints and climbs ladders to the sky to spit... [...]
Number of comments: 4 "St. Francis preaching to the birds" attributed to Giotto (1295-1300. Fresco. St. Francis, Upper Church, Assisi, Italy) "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who..." [...]
Number of comments: 3 Tiny and late bloomer Sedum 'Autumn Joy' trace a tapestry of delicious pinks and grays in the autumn light. "Put down the Twitter machine. Your fans and admirers miss you," writes a gently scolding Gayle Miller in the comments of... [...]
Number of comments: 13 Where have all the blogposts gone? First time we've gone over a week without blogging since launching our little flagship into the blogosphere 5 3/4 years ago on December 12, 2003, with "The tidings that dare not speak their name."...' [...]
Number of comments: 9 Tiny spoke to us in a dream last night. Not her usual meows, maos, prrts and purrs, but in The King's English. Tuck asked what she sounded like. Don't remember a sound. Were her lips moving? More like reading her...' [...]
Number of comments: 3 Republication of our September 11, 2006 post "A virtual lamp beside the golden door, revisited": "It’s been nearly three years since 9/11," wrote Michele of A Small Victory two years back, inviting her readers to add their own two cents'...' [...]
Number of comments: 5 “She was just this angel that landed on this planet for a short amount of time,” a heartbroken Marisa Berenson told CBS News shortly after she lost her little sister, Berry, on American Flight 11, the first plane to fly... [...]
Number of comments: 1 "As if anticipating the left's insidious attempts to steal their fire — by turning their sacred precinct into an anti-American bully pulpit — the angry gods of Ground Zero blew up a sandstorm of warning on the one-year anniversary of..." [...]
Number of comments: 6 Sunrise at Camelot-by-the-Sea from Goomp's terrace this morning. L'heure bleu. Tuesday morning after Labor Day meant the first day of school for us children of the Fifties, a day of trepidation for ourselves, a smartie pants with social-skill issues. We...' [...]
Number of comments: 5 Tiny dazzles atop the woodpile this afternoon with her classical profile and the voluptuous silkiness of her exquisite Chelsea Gray coat. What it took a tiny deer mouse celebrated among scientists as an "evolution icon" several thousand years to accomplish... [...]
Number of comments: 7 Were Tiny's PR team to adopt a totalitarianesque approach similar to that used by President Obama's people in their NEA-directed propaganda war to recruit hearts and minds to his progressive agenda (see below), would her fellow Feline-Americans buy the false... [...]
Number of comments: 2 "BEST TOWN HALL EVER," we just tweeted as John McCain warms hearts and minds of a Sun City, Arizona roomful of constituents with free-market, tort-reform sweet nothings regarding health-care reform: Senator John McCain answering thoughtful questions thoughtfully and with characteristic... [...]
Number of comments: 13 Loving it that the oldsters, now known in polite society as the politically correct "seniors," are finding their voice. Never ever dreamed of being old, but now that we are, it's a revelation. We've been tea partying from day one.... [...]
Number of comments: 4 Clowdering together on the front porch this evening, Tiny and Earl Grey, like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, express "many of love’s moods: courtship and seduction, repartee and responsiveness, teasing and challenge, the surprise of newfound harmony, the happy recapture..." [...]
Number of comments: 3 Show 'em a little ankle and leave 'em laughing, begging for more. Sarah Palin's girly strategery is leaving political adversaries inside the Beltway and their media fellow travelers reeling. They never did get her. Above, a frame from today's Day... [...]
Number of comments: 2 A pretty girl is like a melody. Moments before we caught this image (photoshopped to cut out space between Tiny in foreground and Earl Grey behind), the lovebirds were clowdering cheek and jowel, but by the time we returned with... [...]
Number of comments: 3 "The daily news is like the wind-whipped whitecaps on the ocean, a lot of violent froth on the surface, dangerous to surfers and small craft, but having nothing to do with the larger movement of the sea," we quoted Baron... [...]
Number of comments: 2 "And where was the dog?" teaparty buddy Stoutcat of Grand Rants wants to know in the comments to our previous post. "If I can't see kitteh photos at Sisu, I at least expect to see dog pix." Bird Dog of...' [...]
Number of comments: 5 It was species recognition for lovers and haters of President Obama's plan to take over 1/6 of the nation's economy as August Obamacare Sale Daze hit coastal New England Tuesday in anticipation of the POTUS's historic visit to Portsmouth NH....' [...]
Number of comments: 4 The foreshortened, layered view from our front porch in Chelsea-by-the-Sea with Bunker Hill Monument and 19th-century Charlestown townhouses in the distance, a ramp of the 20th-century Mystic River Bridge and 21st-century harbor cruise boats in the middle ground and our... [...]
Number of comments: 2 "This wicked precious greyhound was one of 100-plus peaceful protesters who gathered outside Newburyport City Hall for the Essex County Tea Party and Rally this afternoon to just say no to creeping/leaping statism," we captioned the above image from our... [...]
Number of comments: 0 It's the authenticity, stupid! All over the right side of the blogosphere and the twittersphere the pictures tell the story. Heartfelt, life-affirming homemade signs created con brio by "we the people" [us the people?], above, vs top-down, bloodless party-line signs... [...]
Number of comments: 4 It would never occur to Tiny (left) or her beloved, Earl Grey, to attempt to explain frightening implications without using muscular language. "Muscular prose reflects muscular thinking (Churchill, Reagan, GW)," we blogged a coupla months back in our post "An..." [...]
Number of comments: 7 The course of true love never did run smooth. He will not always say what you would have him say, but now and then he’ll say Something wonderful. Bergman's "Lengthy sequences without dialogue" come to mind. Sweet Tiny Pea and... [...]
Number of comments: 4 How can we ignore the cats next door? Above one of two semi-indoor neighbor youngsters who gaze down daily from their second-story apartment window and porch at the comings and goings of Sweet Tiny Pea and her suitor, Earl Gray,... [...]
Number of comments: 4 Less is fewer? Why would you write "in less than" 140 characters when you knew the proper grammar would be "in fewer than"? [see Usage Note] Because you were twittering and honing your prose to keep the tweet count to... [...]
Number of comments: 4 Separated at birth? Tiny, above, calculates her chances of springing up perhaps five times her body length to the top of the retaining wall behind the house early morning. Did you say something? The Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda) of the... [...]
Number of comments: 5 Tiger lily, tiger lily, burning bright. Framed by Starburst Lilies, Tiny on the front porch this afta soaks up the rays in the aftermath of a mild morning Nor'easter that gave us a good soaking. A little birdie told us....' [...]
Number of comments: 3 Only furtive shots of Earl Grey. He loves our tiny girl but doesn't trust us, no way. Catnip's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the king. Ah, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you? Update: More... [...]
Number of comments: 5 Milton Friedman's prescient "The Economics of Medical Care" — AKA "Socialized Medicine for Dummies" — delivered to a Mayo Clinic audience in 1978, is going viral on YouTube and Twitter. A few excerpts below, and then listen to the whole... [...]
Number of comments: 19 "Hungry house cats use an annoying but irresistible combination of sounds when they want to be fed, a new study has found," according to National Geographic News (thanks to Goomp for the heads up). Annoying is in the ear of... [...]
Number of comments: 1 In light of President Obama's choice of "nudgy" Cass Sunstein — father of "libertarian paternalism" and three-month-old Declan Power-Sunstein, his child by brand new wife NSC senior director for multilateral affairs Samantha "under the bus, wink, wink" Power — as... [...]
Number of comments: 5 Even as the world turns and our homo sapient species' totalitarian instinct runs rampant over our better angels, Tiny and Earl Grey clowder cheek to cheek. "This guy makes Gore look good" we twittered re Obama's new Science Czar, John...' [...]
Number of comments: 5 Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying... [...]
Number of comments: 1 "We're ordinary barbarians here. No one controls us. We're a horde," writes R.A. Mansour, co-editor of Conservatives 4 Palin, an unaffiliated group blog that speaks to our heart and mind as a member of the "pooh-poohed-by-the-anti-Palin-pooh-bahs" community. We love C4Ps... [...]
Number of comments: 3 "Twitter's constantly updating record of up-to-the-minute reaction has in some instances threatened to usurp media coverage of breaking news [and] helped many celebrities, athletes and politicians bypass the media to get their message directly to their audience," says an AP... [...]
Number of comments: 1 What to do when it's pouring outside and you don't like to get your paws wet? Curl up into a silky fluffball and powernap until the sun comes out. Update: Should it continue to rain for forty days and forty...' [...]
Number of comments: 6 Blue skies and gentle west winds with occasional gusts graced our Sunday Family Fourth Festivities at Goomp's Camelot-by-the-Sea down east. Old Glory, above, was in her glory. Matthew and Susan pose in a proud and loving mother-and-son embrace with the... [...]
Number of comments: 4 Were you there at the revolution? We were as rumors of Sarah Palin's imminent retirement from her Alaska governership lit up the twittersphere this afternoon. As twitterati jockied for first place, we found ourselves at one point retweeted by Michelle... [...]
Number of comments: 4 Like Tiny twisting and shifting her ears in all directions for environmental clues, we spent much of the day hanging around what Jordan Raynor calls the "Citizen-Powered News Bureau," turning our mind's ear to manageable portions of the 24/7 rush... [...]
Number of comments: 4 It takes three tugboats to guide the chemical/oil tanker "Mount Rainier," sailing under the flag of Cyprus early morning, into the Chelsea Creek. We love the layered, foreshortened image above — taken from our front steps — where the turning... [...]
Number of comments: 1 Michael Jackson's untimely death may have temporarily stolen the spotlight from the crackdown on Iranian protesters in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, not to mention the cables, and even the major networks, but unlike whiny nanny-staters who keen... [...]
Number of comments: 2 Darwin's Starlings on Otmoor, a few miles East of Oxford: "Individuals, but moving in a single entity. And the reason for this behavior? Well, thousands of eyes looking for predators on the roost site. Nothing could escape their gaze, no..." [...]
Number of comments: 3 "There is no nuance, no logical approach, no deft explanation that covers near silence and inadequate, tepid condemnation of the meekest sort," Steve Schippert captioned this unspeakable image (Unscreened version — sickening — here) of a young victim of "Iran's...'" [...]
Number of comments: 0 Tiny by palmlight seeing things we don't outside on the terrace early morning. "I LOVE your analysis of the Tiny/Earl Grey romance and am sure you are right about the 'dashing white boots,'" we emailed friend Carol Ward, a lifelong...' [...]
Number of comments: 3 "'Freedom from Fear' (left) and 'Freedom from Want' are two of Norman Rockwell's 'The Four Freedoms' series inspired by FDR's rousing wartime State of the Union address in 1941," we captioned these images from a 2004 post. "Reproduced in four..." [...]
Number of comments: 5 Tiny and her dashing gentleman caller Earl Grey out together clowdering cheek to cheek on the front stoop in the early morning light. First time we've ever seen our sweet tiny girl so taken with another member of her species,...' [...]
Number of comments: 2 Late afternoon on the front porch Tiny assumes the sphinx pose that is her birth right. “This department, I think, is way behind our curve in this and that’s an area where I think we have a lot of room... [...]
Number of comments: 4 Tiny bays at the moon in the midday sun … "Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves." — Bertrand de Jouvenal "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men..." [...]
Number of comments: 5 Cast your vote for Google to change their logo for one day in solidarity with the people of Iran yearning to breathe free. How come Twitter's still getting through while other social networking services have been stifled by Iranian authorities?... [...]
Number of comments: 2 "Sometimes I write a post and think, This is going to get huge traffic. Then I post it and watch in disbelief as people collectively shrug their shoulders and ignore it," writes Michael Hyatt in "The Sovereignty of Readers." Image... [...]
Number of comments: 2 "If you wanna find out about Republicans just like us, you just tune in to MSNBC," quips AlfonZo Rachel (right) in PJTVs blockbuster "Everyday Normal Republicans," now showing at a YouTube near you. "At home chillin' with the wife! Hope...'" [...]
Number of comments: 4 "Savoring the revealing contrast between Drake's seafaring 'reach for the stars' vision and Michelle Obama's landlocked 'audacity of whining,'" we wrote last May in "Because we sailed too close to the shore," a post about the Obamas' soft bigotry of...' [...]
Number of comments: 2 The blogosphere, twittersphere and Fox News are all over David Letterman's gratuitous trashing of Sarah Palin, but frankly, my dear, we don't give a damn. Same old same old (see below). Above, the "Heart of the Republican Party" (in the...' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Tiny gazes out from the front porch into the surrounding greenery this morning, seeing/hearing things — birds, perhaps? — we don't. "That's the definition of blogging! :-) And twitter!" twittered The Anchoress in a eureka moment yesterday, responding to our...' [...]
Number of comments: 7 "Whoever the party leaders selected for last night's [GOP Senate-House fundraiser] keynote could legitimately claim a modicum of heir transparency," observes the WaPo's Dana Milbank. "Hence the intrigue over the two would-be keynote speakers, Gingrich and Palin, each with an..." [...]
Number of comments: 6 "The key was that the initial planting of the vineyard involved a delicate balance," wrote Victor Davis Hanson in The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. "The farmer had to be careful not to opt..." [...]
"The photo of Major Beiger cradling the Iraqi girl, Farah, was the people's choice the first week of May, 2005," reports Michael Yon re his heart-stopping photograph of the fatally wounded child cradled in the arms of an American soldier... [...]
Number of comments: 1 "A rush of dopamine at our first Instalanche (above), followed by dopamine's falling at our first really nasty comment," we wrote back in March of 2004. We've noticed a similar if muted feeling of well being in the aftermath of...' [...]
Number of comments: 8 When it's time for the next meal, Tiny goes for the proboscis. "If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," misdirected Magician-in-Chief Barack Obama on the eve of... [...]
Number of comments: 4 "I'm back in business but flooded with a cete of badgers = commercial followers," we twittered this morning (see below for details). Speaking of badgers, one thing led to another in the course of twitter banter, and we ended up...' [...]
Number of comments: 6 Twittering suspended? Passionate bird watcher and listener Tiny is uncomprehending at the thought. Checking in on our twitter account this afta, we were horrified to learn that we'd been blackballed on accounta "strange activity": Account Suspended. This account is currently...' [...]
Number of comments: 1 What to do when it's damp and gloomy outside of a late spring morn? Tiny suggests jumping up onto your favorite chair and curling yourself up into a squirrel ball for maximum power-napping potential. Update: We suggest clicking over to...' [...]
Number of comments: 9 I am not there. I do not sleep. Three things. Three pieces of music that break our heart. Can't listen to 'em without breaking up, so if you need a good cry . . . Used to be two, but... [...]
"Still being able to have a lobster bake on the Coast of Maine tells me that all is not yet lost out there," says Tuck. Eat your heart out, Mr. statist POTUS. Read Andrew Foy's and Brenton Stransky's "Revisiting Hayek"... [...]
Number of comments: 5 "How much do we love Cheney? Thiiiiis much!" twittered blog buddy Stoutcat of Grand Rants amidst the cacophony of 140-or-fewer-character sound bites that filled the twittersphere with song yesterday. (Unattributed photo from All American Patriots) "Cheney has emerged as the..." [...]
Number of comments: 4 Goomp's sweet-tempered seal point blue Siamese, if you please, Mr. Perkins (AKA Purrky), put his best paw forward the other day as he licked a silken gloss onto his luscious fur coat. Then nestled in for some serious power napping... [...]
Number of comments: 1 "Cook a little, tweet a little! Cook a little, tweet a little! TWEET TWEET TWEET! Cook a lot, tweet a little more!" tweets the divine Miss Amba of Ambiance, echoing Alma in The Music Man's "Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little" (screen shot above),... [...]
Number of comments: 6 On front-porch border patrol yesterday, Tiny allowed neighborhood lothario Earl Grey — caught by our camera's eye below in mid "uh-oh" moment as he realized he was being watched — to pass through her realm without incident. A handsome devil...' [...]
Number of comments: 0 "Notre Dame 'spiritual termites' destroy spiritual edifice from within = like Gramscian infiltration of US institutions," we just twittered. See below for details. ("Formosan subterranean termites, red-colored heads, and workers, pale-colored heads," Wikipedia) "I've just twittered a link to this...'" [...]
Number of comments: 4 "Let everyone reject the destructive power of hatred and prejudice, which kills men's souls before it kills their bodies!" Pope Benedict told "tens of thousands of adoring followers in Jesus' childhood hometown" of Nazaruth "with a message of reconciliation" Thursday....' [...]
Number of comments: 2 Mary Katharine Ham hams it up for the camera in her last Ham Nation video last year. Why Mary Katharine Ham rules the Twittersphere: Like Rice-a-Roni I'm a San Francisco treat For Republicans That's her latest, perfectly metered haiku for...' [...]
Number of comments: 7 "For the second time in four years, Miss USA has magically turned into high celebrity drama that builds and builds to a boiling point at which Trump himself must jump in to decide whether a Miss USA contestant will be..." [...]
Number of comments: 4 Reason # Eleventy-Two why we're "tweet on Twitter": Pop goes the suitcase cat [via Right Wing News on Twitter]. Click here to watch. We follow Ed Morrissey regularly on Michelle Malkin's A-list group blog Hot Air but hadn't "spoken" to... [...]
Number of comments: 24 How scary is it to contemplate the comedy mask that is President Obama's public face (left, photoshopped image of his gleeful expression last night at the contemplation of Rush Limbaugh's kidney failure) that has the nation's elites in thrall? We... [...]
Number of comments: 1 "Time? They still have that? I haven't read it for decades," we snarkily twittered in response to WaPo/CNN Beltway society chronicler Howard Kurtz's latest tweet: Joe Klein on Time's Endangered Repubs cover: Time stopped being fair & balanced yrs ago,...' [...]
