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…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Gates affair
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to verbalize what I think of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates. I think that Radley Balko has essentially got his finger on the pulse of the issue. (H/T: Glenn Reynolds.) Police … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene
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Monday SNB
(That’s Snark News Briefs to you, buster.) Weapons cache? What weapons cache? Lebanon is doubling down on the next war with Israel by (of course) siding with Hezbullah and insisting that the arms cache that exploded was arms “left behind … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Israel, Lebanon, News Briefs, Politics, Syria
Tagged Israel, Lebanon, Sarah Palin, Syria
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Candid and positive
The Washington Post reports that George Mitchell has left Syria and headed to Israel with good news: Earlier in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the former U.S. senator said that he had “just completed a very candid and positive conversation with … Continue reading
A rant about non-typographers designing type
I updated WordPress yesterday, then went back to working on my office, preparing it for the bookcases that are arriving today or tomorrow. I had a busy day, and didn’t post anything last night. So when I saw this morning … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggers
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Sunday snarky briefs
Palestinian ERA watch: Hamastan continues apace, with the latest being a ruling by a Gaza judge insisting that women lawyers all wear hijabs. But remember, they’re doing it voluntarily, and it’s an empowering thing. There is no compulsion under Islam. … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, News Briefs, Religion, Syria, Terrorism
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The Meryl Diet
I tried to start a diet back in June, and I went with a diet that worked years ago, back when I only had about ten pounds to lose. Basically, I cut out junk foods, cut down on Coke (sorry, … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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You have new hate mail!
This is why my comments are moderated. The Jew-hating freaks come out in droves, particularly when one of my posts gets picked up by the blog aggregator that shows up below Yahoo! News articles. Although sometimes, they just find me … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel Derangement Syndrome
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Echoes of the past
Is it my imagination, or is Lair Simon back? Do not click that unless you have a broad (or maybe grim) sense of humor. Oh, and if you’re a PETA person, you really don’t want to click. (Okay, I know … Continue reading
If I’ve lost Ha’aretz, I’ve lost Israel
Evelyn Gordon writes about three columns in Ha’aretz that show resistance to the charms of President Obama. (h/t Israel Matzav). She concludes: When even the hard-core leftists of Haaretz’s editorial board feel that a) Obama seems hostile to Israel and … Continue reading
Denying self-defense
The other day, Charles noted that PM Netanyahu stated the obvious; that Israel’s security fence was preventing terror. That’s part of it. But there’s a bigger reason that there’s little terror coming from the Fatah ruled areas: Israel destroyed much … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time
Tagged Defensive Shield
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Racism for me, but not for thee
So, you know that theory that says you can’t blame an entire people for the actions of some of them? It’s also part of The Exception Clause, because it goes for every people on earth, except, of course, the Jews. … Continue reading
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Obama insults doctors. Proud to be of service, Docs. (Post you’re all looking for is here.)
Observations
I realized a long, long time ago that I am a terrible housekeeper. It’s mostly because I really hate cleaning house. When I left my apartment last year, I decided to hire a cleaning staff so that I wouldn’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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The cost of confrontation
Yesterday I blogged about the consequences of President Obama’s pressure on Israel. Daniel Pipes sees it as a sign that the administration is prepared to precipitate a diplomatic crisis with Israel. However Barry Rubin was less concerned. He observed that … Continue reading
Thursday Snark News
Israel? What Israel? Fatah won’t recognize Israel, or stop “resistance,” and once again, Palestinians openly state that they only said they’d recognize Israel to get international approval (and billions to use against Israel). But this won’t show up anywhere in … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel, Movies, News Briefs, palestinian politics, Pop Culture
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