Long-time readers know that Tig and Gracie are pretty much polar opposites. Tig is a big goofball who is friendly with everyone, eats just about anything, will turn over and give his belly to anyone to rub (the slut!), and acts, come to think of it, more like a dog than a cat, mostly.

Meantime, Gracie is a Cat, and you have to put the emphasis on the capital-C. Cat. She is finicky. She is quirky. She will do the opposite of what you ask her to do. She is timid (though she’s gotten braver) and will run and hide from strangers, especially strangers of the child variety.

Today, both of them were captured in pictures that showcase their natures. I give you Exhibit T: Tig the Goof.

That was supposed to be a picture of what I’m greeted with when I first walk in the door–Tig in his kitty condo. He supplied the goofball look for free.

Now, Exhibit G: Gracie as living art.

Two cats, the same day, with the same camera, about two hours apart. That’s why I never get bored with these two. Of course, Gracie does have her rare goofball moments. And Tig has his dignity from time to time. But mostly, this is them. At this very moment, Gracie is sitting regally two feet away from Tig, who is on his back, belly out, one hind foot sticking up in the air.

Cats.

How sick is this?

Yudhoyono warned in late August that terrorists were likely to launch an attack in Indonesia in the next two months during what has become known in the country as “bomb season” owing to a series of attacks that has occurred around this time over the past three years.

The attack in Bali in October 2002 left some 202 people dead, mostly foreign tourists. Bomb attacks on the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in August 2003 left 12 dead, and an attack outside the Australian embassy in September 2004 killed 11 and injured some 180.

More bombs went off in Bali in two tourist centers. Dozens are dead.

But there is no war on terror.

Let’s start a pool on how fast someone blames this on Australia’s presence in Iraq.