over the cliff, onto the rocks.

My crew has been moonlighting again

2011-03-19T17:30:00.000-07:00

Because folding it back up is the hard part

2011-03-04T07:48:00.000-08:00

Just because I can

2010-05-31T23:03:00.000-07:00

The photo is from this article [about which more, much more, needs to be said, but maybe later]

lolbats!

2010-05-12T10:04:00.001-07:00

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

2010-05-11T11:19:00.001-07:00

see more dog and puppy pictures

The only issue is, is there enough titanium for the knees?

2010-04-28T08:50:00.000-07:00

Lambert is live-blogging the Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In.Also, monetary help is still needed. The speakers all got plane tickets and hotel rooms, and the venue is paid for, but we want to be able to put stuff from the conference out on the web [it's what bloggers do] so donations are still being accepted: here or here.

2010-04-25T22:29:00.000-07:00

I'm on your sofa, soaking up all your sunbeams

2010-04-16T07:36:00.000-07:00

RIP Curmudgeon Cat1990?-2010

Curmudgeon cat, inspiring cats everywhere ...

2010-04-02T22:33:00.000-07:00

Curmudgeon cat's favorite prey is rottweilers, but German shepherds are a reasonable stepping stone in his view.

Run, ntodd, run!

2010-03-10T22:54:00.000-08:00

Todd Pritsky, whom you may already know as ntodd, ntodd, ntoddpax, or ntoddpax is running for state office in Vermont. This is way cool, cool enough to almost make want to move to Vermont. Maybe after a little more global warming.Help him out any way you can.

Oh, look! Blogger loves me after all!

2010-02-11T19:03:00.000-08:00

I haven't a clue what's been going on lately, but Blogger has not wanted me to blog apparently. Which hasn't been a real hardship, since real life hasn't wanted me to have time for blogging either.To catch up...The dog is doing much better, though only time will tell if this is a remission of something serious or a clearing up of something [mostly] innocuous.Curmudgeon cat is the same, still too

New favorite blog

2010-01-14T22:48:00.000-08:00

Ocellated

Helping Haiti

2010-01-14T22:24:00.000-08:00

Whenceforth Progress, on neighbors helping neighbors:The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, is trying to send aid to Haiti. The nation is also bringing injured survivors out of Haiti to its hospitals.and on donations:If you’re listening to MSNBC they’re talking about not clicking email links or doing web searches for ways to donate, because (scumsucking

Just because

2010-01-05T20:50:00.000-08:00

And how did you spend your Saturday night?

2010-01-03T02:26:00.000-08:00

I spent mine at the doggie emergency room.We are back home now, the dog's staggering around scared all the cats, but I've managed to convince him that lying quietly on his blanket really will help with that spinning-room feeling, and now if he'll agree to just not throw up again for a half-hour or so until the dramamine can take effect... [been there, done that, vertigo is teh suxxor].Looks like

Firefox evolved

2010-01-01T22:55:00.000-08:00

because Snowfox kept crashing.

I [heart] Taco Bell

2009-12-27T16:17:00.000-08:00

in part because they almost never get my order wrong. Now I know why.Awesome.

Caturdays with Southern Dragon

2009-12-27T11:38:00.000-08:00

If you've missed SD's Caturday series on the tigers we live with, you've been missing a real treat.

Meowy Christmas!

2009-12-24T04:00:00.000-08:00

Light

2009-12-21T20:25:00.000-08:00

winter solstice

[for reference]

2009-12-20T16:07:00.000-08:00

health care reform presentation, covers various viewpoints, including the stupid [do these people really believe that we consume health care the way we consume groceries!??!?!?!?]also includes a brief presentation by a member of pnhp.

The sun'll come back tomorrow

2009-12-20T15:54:00.000-08:00

until then, there's puppies.

2009-12-18T01:41:00.000-08:00

......................

Got to admire the old guys who can keep it up

2009-12-16T20:34:00.000-08:00

I would go out and buy an iPhone tomorrow

2009-12-11T23:45:00.000-08:00

if I thought this were really true.This is the other app I'd get.

Becaue I like Dan Gelber

2009-12-11T18:37:00.000-08:00

I'll post his latest plea for donations.Friends- Over the last two weeks, the Legislature was called into a Special Session to settle critical issues regarding mass transit throughout our state. The legislature bans fundraising during Session, but a loophole exists for “prescheduled” fundraisers. Because I felt it was only right to put my entire focus on my job as a legislator, I decided not to

Continuing the theme

2009-12-07T01:22:00.000-08:00

of cars and birds and toasty warm backsides...I haven't won the lottery yet, so no heated seats for me yet, and besides, for less than $500 I got new brakes, a new battery, and the transmission fixed. Cheapskate that I am, no way can I bring myself to get rid of a car that both starts and stops on command, even if it closing in on a quarter million miles.

My inner cryptobiologist lol'd at this one

2009-11-28T21:14:00.000-08:00

This one might come in handy someday

2009-11-27T15:57:00.000-08:00

You decide

2009-11-27T15:39:00.000-08:00

This was either the smartest thing I've ever done, petwise, or the stupidest.I bought a bag of the beef liver PureBites dog treats and offered some to everybody. Instant hit, far more than the tripe.Now I've got cats nibbling my fingers and licking the keyboard as I type, and the littlest cat grabbed the bag of treats and ran off with it. Cute, especially as she carried it over to the cat feeding

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T12:33:00.001-08:00

I'll say one thing for the NY Times

2009-11-21T11:14:00.000-08:00

they have way cool interactive maps.Here's one showing the foreign-born population by county. The years go back to 1880, and you can set the filter to look at just one country of origin.Just in case you were wondering, Miami-Dade and Queens are each approximately 50% foreign-born and in each the predominant group is from Latin America.h/t Global Sociology Blog, where you can also find maps of

Nope.

2009-11-20T14:33:00.000-08:00

I'll take End Of The World for $500, Alex.

Email from Dan Gelber

2009-11-20T09:30:00.000-08:00

It’s no wonder that Floridians are losing faith in their government. More public officials in Florida are charged with corruption than in any other state. We have a state government that operates largely in the shadows; a campaign finance system that gives special interests way too much power; and too many of our public institutions seem totally beholden to everyone but everyday citizens. I

I should probably consider doing this

2009-11-18T20:53:00.000-08:00

While I was out buying computer mouses, I stopped to pick up other cat-related necessities in bulk too. Except that I remembered the cat litter and catnip, but forgot the cat food, a fact of which I was forcefully reminded as soon as I walked in the door. I never make a second trip for anything, being a real cheapskate and not wishing to give any more of my hard-earned $$ to the oil companies

Mousers

2009-11-17T19:50:00.000-08:00

Here at chez hipparchia computer mouses are a favored prey:but the predator/prey ratio is closer to this:So I stopped at the store on the way home and bought the cheapest [$9.99] mouse in the store... the lighted [way cool blue] scroll wheel will be a help finding the mouse in a dark room [should I ever need that feature] but the eerie blue glow it's casting on the monitor screen is annoying.

I've just discovered a whole new [to me] YouTube genre

2009-11-16T22:25:00.001-08:00

kittens vs ferrets

I'm not sure we can blame ferrets for all the ills of the world...

2009-11-14T18:46:00.000-08:00

So, I brought the stuff in off the porch

2009-11-11T20:57:00.000-08:00

in preparation for possible-hurricane Ida, and somebody posts it on the internet.

2009-11-11T15:37:00.000-08:00

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuaryvirtual tour of the boardwalk

Do want. Still.

2009-11-10T19:13:00.000-08:00

I originally posted this lolcat almost one year ago and I'm still in love with the whole idea [except for all the gewgaws sitting around on all the horizontal surfaces]. Even more so now that I've learned about the whole-house tour.

My crew have been moonlighting again

2009-10-31T09:11:00.000-07:00

and this time they brought friendz.

When I win the lottery

2009-10-23T19:08:00.000-07:00

I am going to buy myself a new car. Not just any car, it's got to have a heated drivers seat. Until then I will just have to content myself with green-eyed jealousy of some burdz on the internets.

Once more unto the breach, single payer advocates, once more

2009-10-13T22:29:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, Oct 15, is Lobby Your Representative Day If you are in Washington DC and can join Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care in their lobbying efforts in support of Weiner's substitute single payer amendment and Kucinich's state single payer amendment, do so. House lobby day – Wednesday, October 14th * Lobby for Weiner HR676 substitute single-payer amendment votes * Lobby

Who needs expensive, store-bought

2009-10-11T19:33:00.000-07:00

fluffy, when you can have home-made for so much less?That's how we do things here at chez hipparchia.

[for reference]

2009-10-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

KFF slides on MedicareKFF timeline of MedicareMedPAC charts of Medicare beneficiary demographics

Game on!

2009-10-07T19:29:00.000-07:00

Friendly bet, lazily monitored, you got it.Two years? We can make it easier than that [maybe; if they close my library it could take me a couple of years]. Of the top 100 books of all time, only 42 have been banned or challenged [I was a tad confused in my earlier post], which means we can cross Rand and Wolfe [and a host of others] off the list without even batting an eye.The Revised Listbold =

Boomshine

2009-10-01T19:57:00.000-07:00

the gamethe songthe songwritermore games

Welcome, samueltpax!

2009-09-30T19:50:00.000-07:00

RT: @samueltpax: 2:12PM was a helluva shock...I weigh 5lbs5oz & can belt out a nice cry. In NICU for a little observation but look good.2:50 PM Sep 29th from Echofon ntoddpax NTodd Pritsky

I've been neglecting my education

2009-09-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

I see that I've read only 23 of the top 100 Banned Books.

What's it like to be an American living in England and using their socialized medicine?

2009-09-22T22:22:00.000-07:00

Really awful... as in really awful to know what your American friends have to suffer through, or die for, while you get excellent -- and free -- care. via DCblogger

We're number one 37!

2009-09-20T20:39:00.000-07:00

[for reference]

2009-09-20T20:11:00.000-07:00

h/t prairie sunshineon mn public radio:Dr. Denis Cortese, president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, speaks live at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. about health care reform. His speech is titled, "Great Expectations: What Lawmakers Must Do to Reform U.S. Health Care."

[what curmudgeon cat sees when he looks in the mirror]

2009-09-19T23:39:00.000-07:00

dog-liek tyeping detected

2009-09-16T21:34:00.000-07:00

Socialized medicine, right here in the good ol US of A

2009-09-15T21:46:00.000-07:00

Veterans get to have it, why can't we? Well, we could if Barabara Lee's HR 3000 were passed.

Your money or your life!

2009-09-15T18:47:00.000-07:00

Dennis Kucinich peers into a crystal ball and predicts the future --The Private Mandate Sausage Machine While the political process in Washington suffers through its grotesque pantomime on health care, let us prepare our neighborhoods, our communities, our states for the eventual triumph of single payer health care. Please sign the petition for a single payer system.

David Axelrod, The White

2009-09-15T18:35:00.000-07:00

Just a random factlet to brighten your day [or not] -- that's what my email inbox preview pane shortens Axelrod's 'from the White House' emails to.

Cats on a hot tin roof skylight

2009-09-14T18:06:00.000-07:00

Eric Massa shrine post

2009-09-12T19:47:00.000-07:00

[continuing to steal the idea; anthony weiner here]Eric Massa, at a protest of AHIP: "We are not radicals. We are not a fringe element. We are men and women who want to provide for our families."Eric Massa has read HR3200 four times, and will not vote for it as it's written now.

Anthony Weiner shrine post [updated]

2009-09-12T18:53:00.000-07:00

Stealing a good idea from donnadarkoupdated to add this video:Found this one [via] at Hillbilly Report, Anthony Weiner on Bill Maher's show:And then there's the time he made Joe Scarborough speechless:Weiner dares, double dares, Republicans to repeal Medicare, on its 44th anniversary no less:Weiner: Why do we need insurance companies at all? [posted by JesusSavesAtCitibank; is that a cool name or

I've done that

2009-09-11T22:44:00.000-07:00

In fact, it's the only time I've ever been knocked unconscious.

Irony deficiency, bumper sticker edition

2009-09-11T20:33:00.000-07:00

So the dog and I were driving around this past holiday weekend, trips to the dog park and other fun places, and so were a lot of other folks, though not quite so many as in past years for the final weekend of the summer.Still, there were enough cars at enough stoplights to collect a few new bumper stickers for my [mental] collection.Seen on the back of huge brand new SUV, turning into a rawther

I get mail

2009-09-11T00:42:00.000-07:00

From the inbox ---Today, I had the honor of being sworn! in as Florida's thirty-fourth United States Senator. U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and former U.S. Senator Connie Mack accompanied me to the Senate Chamber where I swore to support and defend our Constitution, and bear faith and allegiance to the same.It is a privilege to serve the people of our great state and I am grateful for the opportunity

Woman's Best Friend is a Large Black Dog because

2009-09-10T17:57:00.000-07:00

the teeth show up so well, especially at night.

Either I need 11 more dogs

2009-09-09T19:25:00.000-07:00

to balance things out number-wise, or I just need one more 50-lb dog to balance things out weight-wise. I wonder which it is.

from the inbox...

2009-09-08T18:08:00.000-07:00

Health Care or Insurance Care? It's Time to Respond! Dear Friends, The health care decision-making process in Washington is horribly tainted by the campaign contributions of insurance and pharmaceutical interests. Under the pay-to-play system health care becomes insurance care, the public option shrinks to irrelevance, the choice we are left: What kind of private, for-profit

So that's what they were doing!

2009-09-07T23:13:00.000-07:00

Looking for the door to the secret room! I thought that excuse about inculcating a love of classics in the youngsters sounded specious.

Why I have no houseplants

2009-09-06T17:49:00.001-07:00

I used to have an over-achiever dog too

2009-09-05T22:27:00.001-07:00

Fortunately,

2009-08-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

most of mine prefer touchy-feely. And like the yard sign that says This property guarded by pit bulls three days a week -- You guess which threeI'll leave you to wonder which of teh 12 kittehz fall into which cat-e-gory.

Woman's best friend's best friend

2009-08-18T22:13:00.000-07:00

The dog and I were on our way home from the park the other day, when we saw a woman out walking with her big black dog, the biggest, shiniest, blackest Great Dane I've ever seen. Handsome guy, but I gotta tell ya, Shetland ponies aren't as big as this dog. Trotting along in front of them was the shiniest, blackest, best-turned-out little Scottie I've ever seen.

I've always said that Woman's Best Friend is a Big Black Dog

2009-08-13T00:28:00.001-07:00

but this would work.

Dominoes 7 [and last]

2009-08-10T20:34:00.000-07:00

And now for my capstone post in the series!dominoes 2009Wonderful time-wasters, these domino videos, but now it's time to move on.And because I wandered off into domino land solely because of FlippyCat and because I think this is the most adorable cat video evar, here it is again.

[for reference]

2009-08-09T21:59:00.000-07:00

Tags: Anthony Weiner, Barack Obama, GRITtv, health care, Healthcare Reform, HR 676, Single Payer Healthcare, Single-Payer, universal healthcare

over the cliff, onto the rocks.

My crew has been moonlighting again

Because folding it back up is the hard part

Just because I can

lolbats!

The only issue is, is there enough titanium for the knees?

I'm on your sofa, soaking up all your sunbeams

Curmudgeon cat, inspiring cats everywhere ...

Run, ntodd, run!

Oh, look! Blogger loves me after all!

New favorite blog

Helping Haiti

Just because

And how did you spend your Saturday night?

Firefox evolved

I [heart] Taco Bell

Caturdays with Southern Dragon

Meowy Christmas!

Light

[for reference]

The sun'll come back tomorrow

Got to admire the old guys who can keep it up

I would go out and buy an iPhone tomorrow

Becaue I like Dan Gelber

Continuing the theme

My inner cryptobiologist lol'd at this one

This one might come in handy someday

You decide

Happy Thanksgiving

I'll say one thing for the NY Times

Nope.

Email from Dan Gelber

I should probably consider doing this

Mousers

I've just discovered a whole new [to me] YouTube genre

I'm not sure we can blame ferrets for *all* the ills of the world...

So, I brought the stuff in off the porch

Do want. Still.

My crew have been moonlighting again

When I win the lottery

Once more unto the breach, single payer advocates, once more

Who needs expensive, store-bought

[for reference]

Game on!

Boomshine

Welcome, samueltpax!

I've been neglecting my education

What's it like to be an American living in England and using their socialized medicine?

We're number one 37!

[for reference]

[what curmudgeon cat sees when he looks in the mirror]

dog-liek tyeping detected

Socialized medicine, right here in the good ol US of A

Your money or your life!

David Axelrod, The White

Cats on a hot tin roof skylight

Eric Massa shrine post

Anthony Weiner shrine post [updated]

I've done that

Irony deficiency, bumper sticker edition

I get mail

Woman's Best Friend is a Large Black Dog because

Either I need 11 more dogs

from the inbox...

So *that's* what they were doing!

Why I have no houseplants

I used to have an over-achiever dog too

Fortunately,

Woman's best friend's best friend

I've always said that Woman's Best Friend is a Big Black Dog

Dominoes 7 [and last]

[for reference]

I'm not sure we can blame ferrets for all the ills of the world...

So that's what they were doing!