Meet "The Boss" Pattycake

From Reader Jim T, and his Pattycake

Screw Politics

Let's turn this blog into a critter one, at least for the time being. Anyone who wants to send pics of their pets, or of wildlife they like, just email me with them. And includes whatever commentary you want with the pics and I will post nothing but these. arnold40zz@gmail.com

AND THAT INCLUDES ALL CRITTERS, FURRY AND OTHERWISE, EVEN SCORPION PETS. WE DO NOT DISCRIMINATE.

Female Black Chinned Hummingbird

Obot Charlie - Post Bath

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Our Barnum and Bailey Press - A Sucker Born Every Minute

"It was the ideal metaphor for a politically troubled president. There was President Obama on the cover of the June 19 issue of The Economist, standing alone on a Louisiana beach, head down, looking forlornly at the ground," the New York Times reports.

"The problem was, he was not actually alone. The photograph was just edited to make it look that way."

This sort of things makes me wonder if we really did land on the moon.

via Political Wire

Now For a Zen Moment

On The Fifth Day, God bequeathed opinions to man

Then somebody complained they had trouble expressing them

On The Sixth Day, God bequeathed assholes to man
 

Things have run more or less smooth since.

Happy B Day To You America