The crazy lady strikes again for Saturday, August 12, 2006

Just the other day, I was thinking about the roommate of our parish's liturgist. At one point, she and her roommate were almost joined at the hip; one almost never saw one woman without the other being close by, if the two of them weren't walking next to each other. They were in public together so frequently, in fact, that I personally suspected that they were a lesbian couple rather than just roommates; that, however, is mere suspicion, rather than something I can prove. (I have to make that... Sign in to see full entry.

I've spent the bulk of the day doing Internet research for my various blogs, and half-listening to the TV. I'd rather my daughter would leave EWTN on - they're having a 25th-anniversary Family Celebration in Birmingham, Alabama, and they're providing wall-to-wall coverage of same on EWTN (well, duh ) - but fortunately, she's put some interesting things on the TV, so I haven't really been bored. Right now, for example, The History Channel is running an American Eats episode about the hot dog.... Sign in to see full entry.

This morning, I learned through an AP story of the death of a courageous "undercover kitten" named Fred. Fred participated in an undercover investigation of an unlicensed "vet." An investigator posing as Fred's owner (or Fred's human, as Garfield would say) summoned this character to her "apartment" for a house call, claiming Fred needed to be neutered. The fake "vet" was arrested as he was carrying the cat, and his "professional fees" (in the form of cash, of course), out of the apartment. At... Sign in to see full entry.