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Showing posts with label rats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rats. Show all posts
The male daycare center worker who is not allowed to change diapers and "has been asked to leave the classroom when diapering was happening."
From an article about how it's bad to be too suspicious about the possibility that a man is a pedophile.
But excluding the man from the task of diapering... Seems to me the female employees are getting the worse end — excuse the expression — of this particular discrimination.
Anyway, read the whole article. It's called "Eek! A Male!" I got interrupted in the middle of writing about it by a prompting to look at the thing everyone on the internet is supposed to look at right now that could be called "Eek! A Rat!"
But excluding the man from the task of diapering... Seems to me the female employees are getting the worse end — excuse the expression — of this particular discrimination.
Anyway, read the whole article. It's called "Eek! A Male!" I got interrupted in the middle of writing about it by a prompting to look at the thing everyone on the internet is supposed to look at right now that could be called "Eek! A Rat!"
Madison needs to deal with its vermin - the geese.
At the Isthmus, Bill Lueders — remember him from last week? — seems disturbed by the proposal to kill the geese that are ruining our beautiful public lands.
Parks Division spokeswoman Laura Whitmore notes that the city is soliciting public input on goose management, after the brouhaha at Warner. (The eradication plan there is on hold pending further review.) One public hearing has already been held, on geese and golf courses, and another is planned, on goose management in general parklands.I'm sure the people who want to spare the geese will honk loudest, so I hope those of you who, like me, think the geese should be treated the way we treat rats will speak up too.
"We want everyone's opinion," she says, "not just a few."
A 55 square foot apartment. £43,000.
"In Rome, people now live like rats."
Ah! But it's the Piazza di Sant' Ignazio. Look! You'll be such a lucky rat.
Ah! But it's the Piazza di Sant' Ignazio. Look! You'll be such a lucky rat.
"Brooklyn is now overrun with rats and opossums."
"A few years ago, officials in Brooklyn, New York came up with a seemingly brilliant idea to deal with the rat-infestation problem in their borough: release opossums into the neighborhood to eat the rats...."
Ha. Of course, like rats, they prefer garbage. No shortage of that.
"The critters have a mouth full of 50 sharp teeth, tend to exude a foul odor, and can occasionally contract rabies... They are nocturnal, and some Brooklynites have become terrified to go into their yards at night."
Oh, Brooklynites! I thought youse guys were tough.
Time to bring in some wolves, I think. They eat rats.
Ha. Of course, like rats, they prefer garbage. No shortage of that.
"The critters have a mouth full of 50 sharp teeth, tend to exude a foul odor, and can occasionally contract rabies... They are nocturnal, and some Brooklynites have become terrified to go into their yards at night."
Oh, Brooklynites! I thought youse guys were tough.
Time to bring in some wolves, I think. They eat rats.
"In his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama almost got upstaged by a rat."
"But he didn't even seem to notice. Assuming that's what it was, scurrying in front of his podium Thursday in a sun-drenched Rose Garden."
1. It wasn't a rat. It was a vole.
2. Our own animal nature is revealed by the way we are distracted by animals. We are critters too, and we have a sharp eye for prey, even when it's something we don't eat anymore.
3. I bet Obama was thinking about the time a fly tried to upstage him at the White House:
Can't do that with a vole, can you? Poor Obama! Things don't go his way as easily as they did a year ago when he "got the sucker" (the fly).
4. The "sucker" symbolizes his opponents. Last year, it was a slow-moving fly, handily squelched. This year, the vole skitters unscathed. By next summer, the White House is going to look like this:
UPDATE: Hours later, scientists determine that it was in fact a vole. Told ya. Thanks to Meade, a man who can tell one rodent from another.
1. It wasn't a rat. It was a vole.
2. Our own animal nature is revealed by the way we are distracted by animals. We are critters too, and we have a sharp eye for prey, even when it's something we don't eat anymore.
3. I bet Obama was thinking about the time a fly tried to upstage him at the White House:
Can't do that with a vole, can you? Poor Obama! Things don't go his way as easily as they did a year ago when he "got the sucker" (the fly).
4. The "sucker" symbolizes his opponents. Last year, it was a slow-moving fly, handily squelched. This year, the vole skitters unscathed. By next summer, the White House is going to look like this:
UPDATE: Hours later, scientists determine that it was in fact a vole. Told ya. Thanks to Meade, a man who can tell one rodent from another.
"Top 10 Highlights of Sarah Palin's Trip to New York."
According to Drudge — "developing" — Palin has responded by calling Letterman "pathetic."
I thought it was good-natured fun, and the audience was surprisingly sympathetic to Palin. (Am I reading the "oohs" accurately? They might have been sympathetic to rats... and slutty stewardesses.)
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