The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
Monday briefs
Seriously? The anti-Israel loons are biting us now? Seriously. Although the true point of this story is that the Exception Clause holds strong: Academic freedom is for everyone, except Israel. And oh yeah—it’s all your fault for being bitten. You … Continue reading
The AP: Hamas propagandists
The AP spins, spins, spins for Hamas. Imagine that the Mexican drug lords sent fifty mortar shells into Texas. Imagine the worldwide headlines, and the angles of the articles. Now turn your attention to yesterday, when Palestinian terrorists sent a … Continue reading
Saturday podcast open thread
I talked about Helen Thomas on this week’s Shire Network News, which should be out tomorrow. You can read the Playboy interview here. (And yes, it is one gigantic cognitive dissonance to read the words “Helen Thomas” and “Playboy interview” … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Media Bias, Podcasts 1 Comment
America has always been at war with EastAsia?
So, it wasn’t okay to bomb Iraq, but it’s okay to bomb Libya? How is it that people are making the exact same arguments about Libya that some were making about Iraq (which were deemed not good enough to try … Continue reading
Briefly
Uninformed people, understandable. Uninformed journalists, no: So religious Jews wrapping themselves in tefillin and praying is an “elaborate ritual“? Really? Because I’ve seen people put on tefillin, and it’s not all that elaborate. The AP can’t even get something this … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Movies, palestinian politics Tagged Hamas, Israel, Mel Gibson, Palestinians 1 Comment
Always the subtle anti-Israel bias
Israel intercepted a ship carrying advanced Iranian arms to Syria. Here’s the lead of the latest story. Note the words in bold. Israeli officials are displaying thousands of bullets, mortar shells and anti-ship missiles they say were seized from a … Continue reading
Gracie at 14
About six months ago, Miss Gracie became my longest-lived cat. My first Tigger died of cancer at about thirteen and a half. My second Tigger died of kidney disease three years ago. Gracie has a heart murmur. Gracie has asthma … Continue reading
Posted in Cats 5 Comments
Happy ninth annual EATAPETA Day!
It’s the ninth annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA (EATAPETA) Day. (Holy cow, is it really eight years since we started this? You betcha!) Today, as uber-commenter Alex Bensky likes to say, if it didn’t have a mother, … Continue reading
The aftermath of a massacre
“They murder, we build” is what Netanyahu is telling the world as Israel moves to build more homes in settlement blocs that will remain part of Israel under any peace deal. The fact that these blocs will be Israel? Doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias, Terrorism Tagged Israel, Palestinians, Terrorism Comments Off on The aftermath of a massacre
My life, my blog
I just paid off the last of my credit card debt accrued from years of under- and unemployment (not profligate spending). I am now officially debt-free, except for my mortgage. I am solidly in the black for the first time … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Life, Site news, Teaching 6 Comments
The slaughter of infants
Palestinian terrorists from Fatah murdered five members of a family on Shabbat, including a three-month-old baby. They were murdered in their sleep. The mayor of Ariel, called a “settlement” by the world media, says that the delegitimization of settlements is … Continue reading
Why I hate politics from the pulpit
Two more of my students are b’nai mitzvot this weekend. They go to a Reform synagogue. Their rabbi is beyond progressive; he’s one of the 400 rabbis who signed the letter about Glenn Beck (or whoever the letter was about; … Continue reading
Posted in Religion 7 Comments
Friday snark briefs
Yada yada, unions rock, yada yada, corporate thieves, yada yada: Sally Kohn, a “community organizer” (really, wtf is that supposed to mean?), sings the praises of unions. This part, however, is in great need of correction: There’s an old bumper … Continue reading
Friday tsunami briefs
Awful: One of the largest earthquakes in history spawned a tsunami that devastated the east coast of Japan. I have a friend living on the west coast, and coworkers in Hawaii and Guam. The tsunami is scheduled to hit the … Continue reading
Though I say it myself
You know, the new header is pretty damned good. I like looking at it every day. I think I’m going to have to pat myself on the back over this one.
Posted in Site news 4 Comments