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
Saturday night open thread
Sorry, but it’s been a busy day, and my nephew Jake is over. Say, the movie remake of Get Smart wasn’t bad. In fact, it was pretty good. We laughed throughout. I didn’t see it in the movies because I … Continue reading
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Conversations with Sarah
These are some of the things that come out in my conversations with Sarah. Sometimes she says them. Sometimes I say them. Sometimes they’re the product of both of our twisted minds. Yeah, that’s why I love cats. They’re the … Continue reading
Posted in Life 4 Comments
There’s a kind of snark all over the world
Because Haiti doesn’t have enough disasters already: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled former president(for life) of Haiti, says he can’t wait to get back to Haiti and rebuild the country. Sure. Because he did such a great job while he was … Continue reading
Posted in Terrorism, The One, World 4 Comments
Nighttime briefs
Interpreting the Times, so you don’t have to. Shorter Gail Collins: If only ten percent get to dictated American policy, then by Gaia, it had better be the ten percent that the elites (David Brooks’ “educated class“) are in! Smells … Continue reading
Briefs
The internet turns women into psychos! Yes, really. I read it on the internet, so it has to be true. Can we tell Turkey to eff off now? So Danny Ayalon apologizes to the Turkish ambassador, and that should be … Continue reading
Fluffy kitty post
And now, a relaxing post for the rest of the day. I call this one “Peek-a-Tig.” Today was a rough day for Tig and Gracie. I had FIOS installed, so Verizon Guy was in the house, upstairs and down, making … Continue reading
Posted in Cats, Life 3 Comments
Pat Robertson is an idiot
Really. Televangelist Pat Robertson said today during a broadcast on his Christian Broadcasting Network that quake-ravaged Haiti made a “pact to the devil.” “And so the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’” Robertson said. “And they kicked the French out, … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, World 16 Comments
Idealizing terrorism
The single biggest lie of the Israel Lobby crowd is how being anti-Israel harms a person’s career. You can’t speak out against Israel, the narrative goes, without suffering for it. Never mind that Jimmy Carter, Walt & Mearsheimer, Pat Buchanan, … Continue reading
Wednesday boxers
The Israeli war machine: Oh, you know that’s what the anti-Israel mob is calling it. Israel leads the world in bringing automation to the battlefield. The latest: the air mule, which will bring supplies in and wounded soldiers out of … Continue reading
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Scott Brown in Massachusetts: It’s the people’s seat
You know, I think I’m in love. If that wasn’t enough, there’s always this, where Scott Brown reminds the idiots in the media that there is no such thing as a “Kennedy seat.” Thank you, Scott! He’s my new hero. … Continue reading
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Tuesday snarks
Gee, that’s not suspicious at all: A bigwig in the Iranian race to nuclear weapons was killed in a bomb blast today—in Tehran>. You know, the real lesson to take away from this? Bombs work two ways, Mad Mullahs. They’re … Continue reading
The double standard on Sudanese refugees
So that item in the AP that kept changing its text on the Egyptian border police murdering African migrants trying to sneak into Israel? Well, they changed it again in the latest iteration. But of course, there was the implicit … Continue reading
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Monday snarks
The Israeli rocket prevention program: Got three “militants” as they were preparing to fire rockets into Israel. One hit, three dead terrorists, no real notice by the AP, since they can’t even pretend these were Palestinian farmers trying to earn … Continue reading
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Obama to Israel: Let’s start at the end
As reported last week, the Obama administration is going to try to start at the end in order to report some kind of progress in Middle East peace talks. The thing is, you really can’t start at the end. You … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics, The One 4 Comments
Briefly
He’s Gumby, dammit! Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, died yesterday. I know that Davey and Goliath is Christian proselytizing, but it’s one of the shows from my childhood and I watched it every Saturday morning. Even … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Lebanon, Pop Culture, Television, Terrorism 3 Comments