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…
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Europe on privacy: Yes for terrorists, no for citizens
So let’s see if I get this straight. Europeans shut down the U.S. SWIFT program to sift through European bank data to try to stop terror financing because it broke EU privacy rules. But when researchers at Northwestern University sought … Continue reading
June 6th? June 6th? Do I have something on June 6th?
It’s been driving me crazy all week. What is June 6th? What am I supposed to be doing on June 6th? Do I have an appointment? What the hell is happening on June sixth? What? Oh. This. Sixty-four years ago … Continue reading
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DC mass transit: Screw you if you want to go home late
I’ve been trying to figure out how not to drive to the Kennedy Center tonight. I was planning on, say, driving to Fredericksburg, leaving my car in the Park & Ride, and taking the train into DC and the Metro … Continue reading
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Thinking of the troops
In his column today, William Kristol writes in Remember to Remember: One retired general I know urges civilians to go out of their way to say thank you to servicemen and women they happen to encounter. At first I thought … Continue reading
Distractions
I think it’s time for some different news items. You’ll never get me to talk, Copper: A lost parrot wouldn’t talk to the cops, but he talked to a vet. Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from … Continue reading
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Nice NASA photos
In recent days, there have been some really awesome, NASA pictures of the day. A Place in the Universe This montage of planetary images was taken by spacecraft managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Included are (from top to bottom) … Continue reading
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Slow news day at Bloomberg
Yes, this is a real headline: Poop Predicament Has Los Angeles Horse Owners Raising a Stink And it goes with an exclusive article on Bloomberg News: April 25 (Bloomberg) — The poop hit the fan when the last manure mulcher … Continue reading
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Worse than ants in the kitchen
A brief note: I hate, hate, hate alligators and crocodiles. It is probably because when I was a child, my father thought it was funny to pretend to knock me into the alligator pit at the Staten Island Zoo while … Continue reading
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Say, fellow tinnitus sufferers….
(How many spam comments you figure that headline is going to bring?) Apparently, new therapies are helping those of us who suffer from those annoying noises. I’m pretty sure my tinnitus is partly genetic, partly from TMJ caused by gum-chewing … Continue reading
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Smallest, lightest cell phone
An Israeli company has developed a cellphone that’s made it to Guinness book of World records as the smallest and lightest cellphone.Phone magazine describes it like this: The idea of having a single cellular handset that can serve multiple duties … Continue reading
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Oldest synagogues in the Western Hemisphere
Oldest – Mikve Israel in Curacao In the Caribbean, Curacao is home to the oldest synagogue – Mikve Israel – in continuous use in the Western Hemisphere; it was founded in 1651. Second oldest (?) (Though not in continuous use) … Continue reading
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A boy named Marion
John Tierney writes about Bad Baby Names and the effect they might have on a well adjusted individual by citing that famous psychologist, Johnny Cash. During his 1969 concert at San Quentin prison, Johnny Cash proposed a paradigm shift in … Continue reading
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The view from STS-123
The ViewThis view out the aft windows on Endeavour’s flight deck was one of a series of images recorded by the STS-123 crew during the first full day in space. The end of the Canadian-built remote manipulator system’s robot arm … Continue reading
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A must-read
This is an amazing essay from the pilot of an SR-71 (the Blackbird familiar even to X-Men comics fans). In April 1986, following an attack on American soldiers in a Berlin disco, President Reagan ordered the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi’s … Continue reading
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The ride ain’t free
The New York Times reports, U.S. Universities Join Saudis in Partnerships: Three prominent American universities — the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University — are starting five-year partnerships, worth $25 million or more, … Continue reading
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