Every so often I get these massive cravings for the food of my childhood.

Today: english muffin pizzas.

YUM.

They loves the kitties in my native Wisconsin.

Wisconsin's governor says he doesn't want his state to be known as the place where people can legally shoot cats.

Governor Jim Doyle says "everybody is kind of laughing" at his state right now - over a proposal to legalize the killing of feral cats.

The proposal was adopted Monday at meetings of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress - a public advisory group. It classifies wild, free-roaming cats as an unprotected species that kills songbirds and other wildlife.

"I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats," said Doyle, a Democrat who neither hunts nor owns a cat.

...

South Dakota and Minnesota both allow wild cats to be shot.

At Monday night's meetings, animal lovers held pictures of cats, clutched stuffed animals and wore whiskers as they denounced the plan.

Few hunters publicly spoke in favor of the plan, first proposed by Mark Smith, a La Crosse firefighter. Smith had faced death threats over the plan.

My kitty has been making these phone calls lately. She's so busted.

We're dropping Blogger like a warm turd and moving on up into a new domain name and super-good TypePad shnazz provided by friends with connections.

This includes RSS support, yeah yeah. So quit the whinge.

I want it to be pretty, though, and I don't much like the TypePad-provided templates. So mebbe in a day or two?

Redirect will be in effect here when that happens.

Um.

"I suspect that the Chinese will soon rule the world in spite of what the Jews have planned!"

Here. A decent little reminder, and then all hell breaks loose in comments.

[Via Eschat]

The internets contains multitudes.

Warning: creepy.

Holy shit.

We don't know the identity of the corpse that will follow the pope in riveting the nation's attention. What we do know is that the reality show we've made of death has jumped the shark, turning from a soporific television diversion into the cultural embodiment of the apocalyptic right's growing theocratic crusade.

At the Pope's funeral:

Bush sat on the aisle in the second row, next to his wife, Laura. Beside them were French President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette. The two presidents shook hands.

When Bush's face appeared on giant screen TVs showing the ceremony, many in the crowds outside St. Peter's Square booed and whistled.

Did I mention that he's extraordinarily unpopular in the United States? Oh yes. I did.

Damn blogger. Down yesterday.

Yeah, so everyone's tellin' me I need one of these. Help.

1. Someone tell me (in comments) a good RSS reader for my WinTel ass to use. I guess I should get with the program. I experimented with a couple before but they all seemed so annoying.

2. Someone tell me HOW (in comments) to set this shit up. My little brain gets cold and clammy with tech stuff. I can barely deal with blogger.

We here at the hippie love-commune we call home at Haight and Ashbury missed the debut of the US version of the TV sitcom the Office, because:

We don't have cable, and we don't get NBC through our wack antenna.

It's pathetic that the crap NBC station in the area can't penetrate it's signal to the middle of the freakin' city. This means that I also miss Pumpkinhead's show when I (infrequently) really want to watch it.

The comic talent on the Office US actually looked promising to me, too, what with some Daily Show funnyman playing the boss (and he was v. good as "Brick" in Anchorman) and the genius Rainn Wilson (sp?) from Six Feet Under playing the Gareth character.

But I'm still glad, on balance, that we don't have cable. Fuck that.

Here.

A little reality-check for the media cheerleaders.

...more good stuff here.

I miss working. But I don't miss the dick that I worked for.

Sigh.

Pat Buchanan is frequently loathsome but almost always interesting. On Hardball, in an interview with Chris Matthews, he indicates his support for "voluntary unionism" and a living wage -- the moral aspects of his Catholicism that separate him from the libertarian wing of the Rethuglicans.

The video is here.

Do yourself a favor and avoid turning on your TV for a week.

Is right on today, though the criminal stovepiping of intelligence by CheneyCo is conspicuously not mentioned.

I hate Brooks. But what he's talking about is interesting and important. And it has nothing to do with ZE POPE, thankfully.