JABbering Stooge

I’ve descended to the realm of catblogging. Nevertheless, it seems only natural for me, a cat lover, to eventually get around to doing this. So without further ado, here’s my first catblogging post.

First up, a cat with a toilet-flushing obsession:

I think he’s trying to figure out where the water is going…

This next cat is “chirping” according to Wikipedia, but all the YouTubers who have posted it label this “Barking Cat.” You decide.

And finally, we end with a video montage of cats being silly set to funky Japanese music:

I guess you now know why I agree with Delenn’s assessment of cats and their Minbari equivalents:

Such creatures are the universe’s way of making sure we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

Seriously. And I’ll tell you why I think so. In Thursday’s entry on Boortz’ blog, the “Nealz Nuze” section of the site, he slips in a rant about the House passage of a minimum wage increase. What is particularly galling in this rant is the following comment:

Every single member of the House who voted for this legislation has now, through their vote, told us that they…[b]elieve that it is appropriate for the Imperial Federal Government to use its police power to force an employer to pay an employee more that that employee’s labor is worth to the employer.

That’s right. Boortz thinks that the minimum wage is screwing over poor employers who, without labor laws, would be treating their employees like shit (and with the GOP rollbacks of said labor laws, we’re already starting to see a return to such practices). In other words, in Boortz’s demented mind, every single solitary grunt-level employee is worth precisely $0.00/hour, while every single solitary executive-level manager is worth $6.02 x 10²³/second, recent cautionary tales of Enron, WorldCom, Tycho, ImClone, etc. etc. etc., be damned.

Boortz must believe that Dilbert is “librul agitprop,” which would be news to Scott Adams. But then again, this is the guy who thinks that 4-10% (the actual percentage of the insurgency that consists of foreign fighters and Al-Qaeda types) is “a large amount.” Go figure.

Category title inspired by similar category titles at The Republic of Dogs.

When it rains, it pours. In his “Stay the Course Without Appearing to Stay the Course” speech on Wednesday, the Decider with a Messiah complex and a chip on his shoulder the size of Meteor Crater tilted at some Syrian and Iranian windmills: