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
What a perfect name
Get a load of this guy’s name: Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing Talk about having the perfect name. That’s like being an Indy 500 winner named Driver.
Hamas murders baby; world media ignores it
Say, how many headlines you think this would create if it had been the IDF that killed a baby? Baby among 11 dead after Hamas raids criminal gang’s Gaza base Forces from Hamas, the Islamist movement in control of Gaza, … Continue reading
A blank slate
Okay, here’s the problem. I can’t seem to find the desire to write about anything tonight. Not my commentary for the podcast, not a serious blog post, not nuffin’. So we’ll just have to have an open thread. This is … Continue reading
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Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitism on display
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad manages to make yet another anti-Semitic remark while pretending that he has nothing against the Jews. Iran’s official news website reported that the Iranian president called Haniyeh on the occasion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and … Continue reading
Ten questions for the media pundits
They’ve asked the candidates the questions, and written many sneering op-eds on that yokel Sarah Palin, so I have a few questions for the media. Just to test their general knowledge of things I’ve been reading about lately. How do … Continue reading
Caturday night is all right
It’s been busy, but I do have some cat pictures taken here in Beit Yourish. First, a study in Tig, taken this afternoon: Then we have Gracie, looking like a Kliban cat with slightly glowing eyes. Gracie is finally starting … Continue reading
Wanted: Temporary husband or grown children
You know, if anyone out there wants to rent themselves out as a temporary husband or grown child, I sure could use some help unpacking and getting my new condo into shape. I’m just sayin’.
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Twelve miles west, seven years later
On September 11, 2001, I was twelve miles west of the Towers. I worked for Montclair State University, helping redesign the SVP’s website. When the first jet hit, I was walking down the campus to pick up a copy of … Continue reading
Ingrid Betancourt: Work for Shalit’s release
Ingrid Betancourt is on the right side of the Gilad Shalit issue. “People all over the world should work for the release of Gilad Shalit. If we adopt globalization for financial goals, the struggle for the release of kidnapped people … Continue reading
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The return of the podcast
I have rejoined SNN and my first podcast back with them is about—Sarah Palin, of course. (That’s the general link. Here’s the individual one.) If you listen very carefully, you will hear Tig on it. He and Gracie decided that … Continue reading
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A new campaign poster
Click here. Laugh. Don’t be drinking or eating. Jon, I want that on a t-shirt.
Women and the Sarah Palin vote
Let me try once again to explain to the doubters out there why I don’t care that Palin’s views on abortion are different than mine. Or that she’s a “Christianist,” as Asshole Andrew Sullivan keeps calling her. Or that she … Continue reading
French Muslims still putting the hate on Jews
Three young Jewish men were hospitalized after being attacked by French “youths.” Three Jewish youths on their way to the Paris branch of the Bnei Akiva movement were attacked by a group of teens on Saturday, a short while before … Continue reading
EU to ban sex in advertising?
Oh, this is rich. The nations that don’t blink an eye at sex and nudity in films are thinking about banning “sexist” commercials. MEPs want TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines which would see the end of anything … Continue reading