When Do You Stop?

At what point does trying to keep kittens alive turn into cruelty to animals?

Two of the tiny ones have gone. The other two are not doing well, even with subcutaneous fluids and being kept warm. One had blood in his stool, indicating intestinal bleeding.

I ask myself this every time, and I still don't have a good answer.

In honor of national humor month

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot b*tch." ~Joan Rivers

The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything. ~Dave Barry


Today is

Adonia, Greece (women's festival)

ANZAC Day, Australia and New Zealand

Arbor Day

DNA Day

East Meets West Day

Flag Day, Swaziland and the Faroe Islands, Denmark

Malaria Awareness Day

National Pet Parents Day

Red Hat Society Day

Remembrance Day, New Guinea

Robigalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival of Robiga and Rogibus, the brother and sister fertility gods)

Sinai Liberation Day, Egypt

World Penguin Day

20-Something Service Day


Birthdays Today:

Jacob Underwood, 1980
Jason, Lee, 1970
Renee, Zellweger, 1969
Hank Azaria, 1964
Talia Shire, 1946
Stu Cook, 1945
Bjorn Ulvaeus, 1945
Al Pacino, 1940
Meadowlark Lemon, 1932
Paul Mazursky, 1930
Albert King, 1923
Ella Fitzgerald, 1918
Edward R. Murrow, 1908
Guglielmo Marconi, 1874


Today in History:

Highwayman Nicholas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine, 1792
The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots, 1849
British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal, 1859
First DC Comic with Batman is published, 1939
The Hubble Telescope is deployed, 1990
The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937, 2005