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Last week we took Ozzo to the vet for a checkup. The vet confirmed the eyesight is failing and the hearing is failing and the arthritis is spreading, and did bloodwork to check kidney, liver and heart levels, and then called us with the news. I listened in as Carlos talked to our vet and when he hung up I asked what was said:

“Well, he said that we ought to change our wills and leave the house and everything else to Ozzo because he's gonna outlive us all.”

Seriously.

This week’s Tuxedo Memory is from April 2011:

“Caturday

Despondent over his love for books, and his utter inability to read a single word, Tuxedo simply gave up.”

I cannot stop smiling whenever I find a photo of The Great Tuxedo sprawled flat on his back. That cat slayed me.

Shocking? No. A letter from a trusted church source based in Germany was found among the private papers of Pope Pius XII and suggests that the Pope was told in 1942 that up to 6,000 “Poles and Jews,” were being killed in furnaces every day at the Nazi death camp Belzec, in Poland.

The document adds to the evidence that some scholars say shows Pius knew about the Holocaust but did not want to confront or offend Hitler because he feared Communism, believed that the Axis powers would win the war and wanted to avoid alienating millions of German- and Nazi-sympathizing Catholics.

So he said nothing while millions more were murdered.

Fuck the Catholic Church.

A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him, loudly enough for those around them to hear, why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation:

“You grew up in a very different world, an almost primitive one. The young people of today are much more advanced than people your age. We grew up with TV, a man landing on the moon, jet place, space travel, the internet, cell phones, nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers, AI,  automated manufacturing, amazing technologies, and …”

He paused to sip his beer and the senior citizen took advantage of the silence:

“You’re right, son. We didn’t have those things when we were young … so we invented them. But tell me, you arrogant little shit, what are YOU doing for the next generation?”

The applause was deafening.

Remember, someone came before you to make your life easier and better.

When auto CEOs say they can't afford to pay their workers more money remember that the Big Three automakers have made $250 billion in profits the past decade and have spent $66 billion on stock buybacks and dividends.

It’s not that there isn’t money for raises and bonuses, it’s that the rich want to get richer while their employees suffer.

The irony of the  Hunter Biden gun charge is that the firearm application only exists because he purchased the gun from a federally-licensed firearms dealer, which actually conducts a background check.

You know, those same background checks that Republicans don’t think you should undergo to own a gun.

Lauren Boebert Groper says it’s over between her and the guy who gave a handie to during a matinee performance of Beetlejuice because he’s a Democrat.

I think it’s because he forgot to leave twenty dollars on the nightstand before he left.

Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl’s former attorney, Rudy Giuliani was sued this by his onetime lawyers who claim he owes them $1.36 million in unpaid legal fees.

Looks like Rudy might wanna return the cubic zirconia he bought for his mistress-turned-fiancée last week. Even the sixty bucks he gets for it might help.

This week’s offering is Ryan Greasley, a fitness and underwear model –and try as I might, I could only find that one photo of him fully clothed—who has graced the pages of magazines like DNA and MMH. But we don’t care much about that because this is: Would You Hit It?

PS To be fair, I didn’t try hard to find Ryan in clothes.