06.23.06

Good editorials in the NY Times

Posted in GOP, Government, NY Times at 8:05 am by LeisureGuy

For all my kvetching about the rightward tilt of the NY Times, they stepped up to the plate today with a couple of reality-based editorials: A Look at Republican Priorities: Comforting the Comfortable, on the continuing GOP effort to repeal the estate tax, and A Look at Republican Priorities: Afflicting the Afflicted, on the GOP's defeat of raising the $5.15 per hour minimum wage. Both editorials are worth reading and show clearly the rotted core of the GOP, a party that has no moral compass whatsoever.

Friday cat-blogging: Megs in profile

Posted in Cats, Megs at 7:52 am by LeisureGuy

Megs in profile

Megs on the arm of the chair, checking for prey. She had stopped sleeping on me altogether, and I thought I had lost her to the comforts of the Cozy Cushion™, but then I got completely well from the cold, and she’s back. I guess she doesn’t like sick guys.