Marwan Barghouti is considered a “moderate” palestinian, in spite of the fact that he’s serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail for his part in planning terror attacks. Here’s what the “moderate” palestinian leader had to say:

During the meeting, Barghouti said that establishing a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders including East Jerusalem, allowing the refugees to return, and releasing the prisoners is “the minimum the Palestinian people can accept”.

“We’re struggling for a small country in size, but a large one in honor and freedom. The Palestinian people tried resistance without negotiation, and negotiation without resistance, and the truth is there is no other way but resistance to the 1967 occupier while keeping in mind the diplomatic horizon,” he said.

Yep. Moderate:

a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions, esp. in politics or religion.

Advocating the destruction of Israel, either by force or demographics, is a “moderate” leader’s stance.

But then, this is in regards to Israel. Up is down, left is right, bad is good, and the minimum means “every demand we have, no compromise.”

And people blame Israel for not negotiating with these people.

Readers have been requesting more cat pictures. Here at Yourish.com, as you all know, we aim to please. Okay, well, actually, we aim to please if we feel pleased about the pleasing that is please being pleased, but, uh, crap. I’m lost. Never mind. To the catblogging!

Gracie’s picture is from a few weeks ago, when her nest was particularly colorful. It has since had some of the brighter colors removed and other colors added, but her favorite is a just-added silver paper that’s extra-crinkly that came with one of my holiday presents. She likes it a lot. So much so that she spends quite a lot of time settling down in it. After she eats a meal, she makes the paper rustle loudly for a few minutes by walking around, pawing at it, circling a few times, and finally lying down. Gracie sure loves her tissue paper. I need to buy more. Time to go to the dollar store and see what they’ve got. Ooh! Shopping tomorrow!

Picture number two is Tig. I had $60 in Circuit City gift cards that I finally spent last week online. I ordered three CDs and a pack of blank cassette tapes (I have a cassette player in my Jeep, probably one of the main reasons my car radio has never been bothered—I don’t think thieves even know what a cassette player is). The cassettes (sigh) came first, in a box that’s just about the perfect Tig size. So I put it down and waited for it to be filled with cat. It did not take long. Unlike Gracie, Tig has no particular box routine, unless you count “Leap in box and lie down” as a routine (which I do not).

And now we have reached the end of our story, and you probably weren’t even able to tell that I added filler to this post so the pictures would have enough text around them to look good. It’s an old, old writing trick, and I’m not even getting paid by the word for it. I learned all about it in my days in the magazine industry. Who knew that my typesetting experience would turn out to be useful in blogging?

And that ends today’s cat post.