BLATHER AND REGURGITATION
I took Thayer, the cat, to the vet yesterday and today I am slumped over the computer, posting my last words. It is such a strain.
First, you have to get the cat in the container and into the car. I cannot put Thayer in a regular cat carrier. The opening at the top is too small, and he is too strong. So he fights his way out of my grip. I cannot use carriers with doors on the ends, for the doors are also too small and too heavy for me once the cat is in them. So I put him in an ENORMOUS Mexican basket with a lid that closes and locks. The opening is so big that while he is having breakfast I can come up from the rear, grab him--his little paws clawing the air--and dump him in the basket. Next, I need my husband to help carry him to the car. Yesterday, he lost his balance, fell in the driveway, and barely escaped serious injury. The lid flew off the ENORMOUS basket, but the cat was too traumatized to take advantage and I was able to whip it back on.
One half hour in the waiting room at the Vet's, seeing little dogs shaking with fear, hearing the pitiful chorus of meowing cats, and then on to the examining room, where, once in the hands of the perfectly gentle vet, Thayer is as docile as a cat on Valium, but, of course, the cat senses the authority, and the fight has left him. Not unlike ourselves in the hands of the doctor.
Home again. Open the ENORMOUS basket and the cat jumps out, tears off and is gone for the day. Eats, but doesn't speak to me for two days.
L.A.TIMES, 1.19.03
"One of the day's loudest crowd reactions (the anti-war demo on Saturday) came when a figure from the Vietnam era, former Atty. Gen. Clark called for articles of impeachment to be brought against Bush.
…'Let's impeach him,' shouted the 75-year-old Clark, who served under President Lyndon B. Johnson and who more recently has represented a string of high-profile criminal defendants. Afterward, Clark said 'the evidence is there' for articles of impeachment but that he would not 'prejudge' whether it merited Bush's conviction by the Senate and removal from office."
My unsolicited comment on impeachments: Given a choice, I would rather have a President who gets blow jobs in the Oval office and lies about it (as who wouldn’t?), than a swaggering warmonger.
9:29:16 AM 
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