New Year’s cat pix
Two appearances by LG. The first has him at the back window on Christmas.
Quitting
There are, I suppose, people who come to hate smoking when they give it up. I don’t. I do dislike the taste of it in my mouth now. That is my primary device to turn away the urge when it comes. But I don’t think that smoking is evil. It harms the body: that much is certain. For that reason I prefer having quit to the alternative.
Smoking also makes you more or less completely a slave. The means, often time-consuming, sometimes self-abasing, by which dedicated smokers overcome the inconveniences put in their way testify to that. As do the rationalizations for continuing to smoke. Which is not to say that there isn’t some merit to the thought that disapproval of smoking is part of an increasingly repressive culture, one in which perceived risk provides a pretext for greater surveillance and control.
January 2, 2008
in Ethics
· Psychology
Flowers
Below the fold: flowers from friends of M.
Epiphany cat pix
Today is the Twelfth Day of Christmas according to some liturgical calendars. Twelve toes a-tapping…
Escalation, Strategic Hamlets, …
For those of you keeping score, the current conflict in Iraq has now reached the “Vietnamization” stage. I have to admit that “Iraqi solutions to Iraqi problems” is a snappier catchphrase. I wonder what the Iraqi solution to being occupied by a foreign power is.
January 10, 2008
in Current Affairs
Sunday cat pix
Musa takes the high road. This was just after she knocked a whole cup of coffee off my desk.
Sunday cat pix
Musa flattens HS with a single paw. Click in this window. Then move the cursor on and off the picture to make it flip. It may take a few seconds before the second frame appears.
January 20, 2008
in Cats
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Sunday cat pix
It’s next to godliness, they say.
Musa, 21
Jan 2008