Saturday, January 1, 2022

Happy New Year


By Hubie and Bertie

We cats are not in Montréal today, and it's probably a good thing. Because they went from a soft lockdown last week to a harder one this weekend, with little notice.

Still, Premier François Legault seems to be handling things better in Quebec than Premier Doug Ford is in Ontario. Ford, by the way, is missing in action — as Florida's Ron DeSantis was until last night, when he forced his wife, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, to appear maskless at an Orange Bowl super-spreader event.

If all these Republicans (and their Canadian Tory counterparts) die from their pandemic idiocies, we won't be sorry. Let's just hope that they don't bump more-responsible people from getting the healthcare they need from non-COVID-related conditions.

But hey! Let's think positively this first day of 2022. Upstate New York may be blanketed in fog, but thanks to vaccinations and boosters, our latest coronavirus setback could be short-lived. Styrofoam is illegal in our state now. Animal shelters are receiving floods of donations in memory of the great Betty White. And our President played on the beach with his new dog this weekend, instead of golfing at his own properties and tweeting hate. Things could be worse! We cats PURR.

(IMAGE: Monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier, father of the Confederation, Mont-Royal, Montréal. One of our favorites.)

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