Sunday, May 12, 2019

Tidbits And Cat Treats: Exhausted By It All Edition

By Zamboni

Feeling a little cranky today? Tired of all the 2020 tweets that hook their wagons to Mom? Overdosing on Grand Marnier french toast and smoked salmon eggs benedict at Mother's Day brunch? Ready to strangle every flower you see? Never fear, we cats are here to complain about the news (and throw in some motherly admonishments along the way). Grab another frittata and dive in.

Sorry, but it's against the law to eat on the Washington Metro system.

The George-Kellyanne Conway shtick is surely nothing but a nefarious ruse. She remains loyal to Benedict Donald while he tweets insults — all for a future book deal, we're sure. So we refuse to follow him or take him seriously. Still and all, today's "malignant narcissist" thread is pretty compelling. Is the book deal off?

You cannot ignore subpoenas.

We urge The Washington Post to rethink this headline. Alyssa Milano's call for a sex strike "didn't go over well"? The Post cites four critics of the idea. But Milano's original tweet got 38,000 likes and 13,000 retweets. Hmmm: 51,000. Four. What's the bigger number?

Tariffs do not hurt China. They are a tax on American consumers. Now, eat your vegetables.

Finally, looking around the country at all those Republican-led red states that are enacting extreme anti-choice legislation doesn't exactly put us in the mood for celebrating moms. They're taking away women's decision making on when and if they will become mothers just to get Roe overturned. To borrow a phrase from Scrooge: Mother's Day is "a false and commercial festival, devoutly to be ignored." We cats HISS.

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