News Round-Up
July 27, 2008
Stories from the past week that stood out. July 17 Viagra is for a medical condition, birth control is a “lifestyle choice.” July 21 “Obama couldn’t go to Iraq if it wasn’t for McCain.” “If they want to rent a bus, show them where they can rent a bus.” “The difference between Obama and Osama [...]


I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature. . . . I recollect [Hodge] one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;' and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, 'but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.'