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Remarkable, simple, arresting post from Beachcombing today...

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This morning, I was in the minimart buying my newspaper as I do every day. I was in line behind a woman, either a veterinarian or a vet tech, wearing a smock decorated with a repeating pattern of a cartoon cat. A sad cartoon cat, in bed sick, with a thermometre in his mouth, and a box of tissues nearby. I almost started crying, just thinking of the sick cats. I'm crying a bit now, thinking about it. Whoever drew that meant it to be cute and funny, I know, and in a way it was, but sad at the same time.

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Now I'm in a weird, melancholy mood. I'm going to bed to cuddle with my cat.

Finally!

And good riddance to the 111th Congress. There's probably been a more malign and destructive one*, but certainly not in my lifetime.


* The 36th comes to mind, that touched off the Civil War.