Catching a Kitty Cold

Posted March 25, 2009, 6:49 p.m.

Vincent, our youngest cat (who is growing quickly), seems to have caught a little kitty cold. It’s pretty minor so far, but, as always, we’ll keep an eye on it and take him to the vet if necessary. He’s been sneezing and has a little bit of discharge around the eyes.

He’s still been pretty active, running around and being goofy, but generally seems less happy and comfortable than normal. The look he’s giving me here is the ‘please fix it’ look he keeps giving me, as if I can cure kitty colds.

He’ll live ;-).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Western values—the basis of the West’s self-evident economic, social, political, scientific, and cultural success—are clearly superior to any other set of values devised by mankind.

Let him admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper!—he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

In the first element God is beyond time, as the eternal Idea, existing in the element of eternity. . . .

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

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But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.

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Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Although man has many points of resemblance with the brute creation, one characteristic is peculiar to himself—he improves. . . .

It remains to me, as to so many who have thought about the matter, a source of extreme puzzlement that there should exist anything at all.

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