Alright, let me join what seems to be a blogging bandwagon; pictures of cats (or orchids?) on Fridays. This is my new kitty, Ziggy, who I picked up from the Clatsop County Animal Shelter up in Astoria. She has the cutest little tail. It’s broken in three places, as if it were slammed in a doorway. When she’s walking toward you, it looks like a question mark. She is now added to our little pet family, joining my all-black kitty Isis in a yin-yang feline balance, and Iva’s black-with-white markings dog, Peppy. (Why does it always have to be a black and white thing? Because they go with everything!)

Pride Flag Fight Brings Out Boise’s Homophobes
For example, this fine neckbeard, replete in his “Long Bunch Of Text On A T-Shirt That The Facebook MAGA Algorithm Showed Me That Says Something Bad About Liberals,” his 9mm pistol strapped to his waist in case one of those grandmas across the street in a Pride cape is secret Antifa infantry, tattoos down his arm that explain his particular pride in the original Germanic runes, and a black-and-white striped Straight Pride Flag.