Breaking and Entering and Drinking “Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.” ― Oscar Wilde Whether a person considers themselves religious or not, there’s a decent chance that they have prayed to the “Porcelain God” at one time in their life. Apparently, it’s also a thing with raccoons. For you teetotalers,Continue reading “Three Sheets to the Wind”
Category Archives: Cats
No Soup For You
Catatouille A word of advice: if you’re a cat owner, never turn your back on what you have cooking on the stove. You might not like what you find in the pot. Then again, we all have different tastes, and you could just compliment your feline chef for the added ingredient. Such was the caseContinue reading “No Soup For You”
Unequal Justice
Size Matters “It’s not the size of the dog cat in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog cat.” Mark Twain (as edited by a cat) Law enforcement recently discovered that Mark Twain was correct, though it doesn’t hurt to be a large feline. In Thailand, a small cat named NubContinue reading “Unequal Justice”
Going Dutch
Shanghaied in Amsterdam We recently went on a vacation to the Netherlands. Just my wife, Genifer, our youngest daughter, Lily, and I. At least that’s what we thought. Our cat Chester had other ideas. I broke the news of our pending trip to him a few days before we left. Not one for liking change,Continue reading “Going Dutch”
Hijacking High Jinks: The Purrfect Story of Airline Chaos
I Want To Go to There Back in the 1960s and early 70s, it was a thing to hijack U.S. airliners and force the crews to fly them to Cuba. Now, one particular cat has turned hijacking on its head. A Ryanair flight was getting ready to take off from Rome for Germany when crewContinue reading “Hijacking High Jinks: The Purrfect Story of Airline Chaos”
Cats Know Stuff
Credit Fraud Great discoveries in virology include Doctor Jonas Salk, who created the first effective vaccine for polio; Doctors Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó’s pioneering work on messenger RNA that helped find a quick vaccine for COVID-19; and Pepper the cat, who discovered the first-ever jeilongvirus to be found in the United States. Of course,Continue reading “Cats Know Stuff”
Catlateral Damage
Bombs Away If you see a cat strolling through the airport, don’t assume it’s lost. It might be doing the same thing you are, getting on a plane for vacation. This summer a cat named Harry, was found wandering Boston’s Logan International Airport. For three weeks his humans thought the 8-year-old cat went missing fromContinue reading “Catlateral Damage”
Cat Physics
Newton Schmooton We’re all suckers. That’s right class. For centuries we have been led to believe that Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, has been an absolute order of the natural world. Silly Newton. He didn’t come up with that idea by observing cats.Continue reading “Cat Physics”
Natural Phenomena
Shake Rattle and Roll Recently we’ve experienced a couple of natural phenomena that we don’t usually get in Connecticut; neither of which impressed our cat, Chester. The first was a 4.8 earthquake that hit nearby New Jersey, the largest such event in that state in more than 200 years. I have my doubts about thatContinue reading “Natural Phenomena”
While I Was Hibernating
Fake News While our cat Chester and I were hibernating during the winter, there have been some big news events with two standing out. Vince Lombardi Would Be Proud Taylor Swift wins the Super Bowl: Kansas City Chiefs’ super fan, Swift, was clearly the biggest reason the Chiefs became the first team to repeat asContinue reading “While I Was Hibernating”
The Chester Chronicles 