Kiss and Make Up Day

Today is Kiss and Make Up Day. Seems a bit redundant.

1. A litter box is not a mini-bar for dogs.

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There--are we good now? I no longer see a litter box as a mini-bar for dogs.

It's a picnic basket.

Everything old is new again!

M says this cartoon from way back in the Great Depression has been making the blog rounds since the 2008 financial meltdown and that it's probably time we ran it, too.

"What's it about?" I asked him, begging him to keep it short and simple. He said it was mainly about fuzzy thinking and harebrained political rhetoric.

"Thanks," I said. "You cleared that right up." Then he said it was hard to explain in just a few words, but that maybe I should read Paul and John.

"The Bible or the Beatles?" I probed.

"Neither of those," he said. "Paul Krugman and John Maynard Keynes."

I might do that sometime if there's nothing good on TV or the backs of my eyelids. Meanwhile, here's the cartoon, which is by a guy named Carey Orr at the Chicago Tribune:

Twins Separated at Birth

If you've followed my blog for a while, you'll know that I love to spot famous humans who look like other people--or especially like other life forms. So, for example, I've helped to spread the lookalike mystique of one U.S. Senator "Tooter" McConnell:

And the Mysterious Bovine Billionaire:

Today I'm proud to add to my collection a picture of Sarah Jessica Parker in the Land of Oz:

Isn't that a stitch? As you can see from the caption, I found it on a website called TotallyLooksLike.com. If you're looking for a place to waste a little time, that's a pretty awesome one. They also have a cat that seriously emulates a guy on CNN:

And even a dog that looks like food:

Lookalikes are all over the place. Here's a pair I saw on TV the other night that hits pretty close to home: I live in Florida, where we have this governor named Rick Scott, who happens to be very unpopular. I'm not sure why people hate him so much, especially since they elected him. But somebody--I think it was Stephen Colbert--was saying that folks would probably like Gov. Scott better if he'd stop trying to kill Harry Potter.

(I'll admit that M had to help me a little with that one.)

M's on a rant today.

The target of his wrath is a group of people he calls "The Pointy Heads on the Potomac." Sounds like some kind of club.

He's also taken to quoting one of his favorite authors, a guy named Mark Twain, who wrote, "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

Oh, and this one: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

M tried to explain why the P.H. Club has him so riled up, but it was all about their failure to understand something known as "simple Keynesian economics," and of course I'm just a dog, so whhhttt!--it pretty much went sailing over my head, too. I did gather, though, that this P.H. bunch and Congress are one and the same organization.

"Pointy heads I can understand," I told him. "Look at your average Irish setter. But why do they also call it Congress?" He said I should look up the word "Congress" in the dictionary and be sure to peruse all of the definitions. "Believe me, the appropriate one will jump right out and hump your leg--or worse!"

He also asked me to recommend that everyone read Paul Krugman's blog post in today's New York Times.

Done.