Yay, Burrell!

Why not?

Too much security at the airport. Hard to hide the bodies successfully.

Oh, as they say... dear.

A doggy appeared at my door about two hours ago. Wee, solid beastie, smooth pure white coat with brown tipped ears and brown patch over one eye. No collar and his underside was filthy and damp as if, y'know, he'd dug his way to freedom.

It's raining.

I now have a wee, solid beastie in the garage ensconced in Jasmine's old crate with some water and food. His ribs aren't showing and when I put water and food down, he didn't lunge for it. Other than the mud where he clearly did some digging, he's very clean.

I thought Lewis was going to strangle me, but first thing he said when he saw him (after the long pained sigh) was "He's a cute little bugger, isn't he?"

I am not a fan of hummus.

I recognize all the words in that sentence, but strung together in that particular order, they make NO SENSE!

Oy. A hospital in England put up a poster in their children's ward, encouraging mothers to breastfeed their babies. The poster has a picture of a little girl, maybe two years old or so, fully clothed, holding a baby doll to her chest, imitating her mother breastfeeding a baby. [link] Some people are freaking out about this picture. "Disgusting" and "highly offensive." (I'd go with "weird choice of persuasive poster content," since there are probably tons of way better ways to promote breastfeeding, but it's a cute picture.)

President Obama has signed the Credit card bill into law.

Also, the President liked carrots Star Trek: [link]

"Now, movies I've been doing OK [with] because it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house," Obama said. "So 'Star Trek' we saw this weekend, which I thought was good. Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out."

And believe it or not, he actually did the Vulcan hand salute. Yes, the leader of the free world just showed said world his inner geek.

OK, perhaps the most "Huh?"-inducing comment on that article:

I find it a bit weird. Should kids be thinking about being mothers at that age? Early sexualisation of kids is wrong.

Isn't pretending to be a parent the usual way of playing with a baby doll?

I'd say so.

I'd say so.

I now have a wee, solid beastie in the garage....

No collar and tag, I assume, but maybe he has a chip?

I'm also very puzzled by the people saying that breastfeeding is an "adult issue" that children shouldn't know about. Um, last time I checked, breastfeeding involved two people, one of whom was a child.