Bobservations

Those with a queasy tummy may want to skip ahead …

As you may know, Carlos was diagnosed pre-diabetic earlier this year and we instantly made changes to his, and our, diet. No more bread—which for bread-a-holic Carlos was a tough loaf to stop swallowing—and no more honey.

But he’s done very well, and we will every so often have toast for a light, quick breakfast, though I allow Carlos just the one slice; I am the Bread Bull Dog. So this one morning he had some plain non-fat yogurt with oats and banana and the one slice of bread. He cut up an overripe banana and served it in his yogurt, so when he had his slice of toast and spooned some honey on the bread I thought he’d put some brown slices of overripe banana on the bread. But this banana was not quite right and so I asked him to see the honey pot he’d kept in the cupboard filled with the sweet gooey stuff. I pried off the lid and found the jar half-filled with honey and roughly 4 or 5 dead cockroaches as well.

Yes, hold your gag reflex, Carlos was spreading honey and dead cockroaches on his toast and before any of you asks, “How the hell dirty is your house.” Remember that the honey pot had been sitting unused and unopened for over seven months.

The upside of this, you may ask, and yes there is an upside: for over a week now I have been giving Carlos a bad time about this or that and when he complains, all I need to say is …

“I saved you from eating cockroaches.”

… and the complaints stop..

This Tuxedo Memory is from May 2011 …

Tuxedo Thursday

“Oh, I give up.”

The look on his face, like he’d been caught doing something wrong, or, probably truer, that he was annoyed at being disturbed, along with the paws up, kills me.

That darn cat …

The White House had zero fucks to give when GOP Pennsylvania Representative Mike Kelly objected to President Biden's efforts to provide relief for student loan debt.

On Thursday, Kelly took to X, formerly Twitter, to rage about Biden's decision to cancel $9 billion in student loan debt for 125,000 borrowers who owed, on average, $72,000. And the White House responded by saying that Mike Kelly has had over $1 million in government loans forgiven himself.

Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP.

Democratic Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz thinks that Palm Beach County ought to tax Thing 45’s Mar-Illegal property at the $1,500,000,000 value the Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl claims its worth.

And with DeSantis running Florida into the ground, the state could use the money raised on Thing 45’s other BIG lie.

Navy sailor Information Technician 2nd Class Thomas James, who intervened to stop the mass shooting at Club Q last year, has received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest noncombat award for heroism, awarded to those who put their own life in jeopardy.

As the shooting went on James grabbed the barrel of the murderer’s weapon and restrained him until police arrived: James suffered a gunshot wound in his abdomen and burned his hands as a result of his actions.

Thank you for your service to your country and to your community.

Alice Cooper has come out as anti-trans, claiming that children identifying as trans is a "fad" and that adults are "confusing" children by "telling [them] 'Yeah, you're a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.'" 

Odd, coming from a man who, Rolling Stone noted, "built a career partly out of defying and toying with gender expectations," but who clearly is an ignorant bigot. And who is now out of a partnership with Vampyre Cosmetics, who ended their relationship with Cooper over his bigotry saying:

"In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no​​​​​​​​​ longer be doing a makeup collaboration. We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare. All pre-order sales will be refunded."

Sorry, not sorry, Alice. Alice? Wait, isn’t that a girl’s name? Odd, this hate coming from a man who was born Vincent Damon Furnier but now identifies as Alice.

Read Me a Story, Stella is a children’s picture book about a pair of siblings reading books together and building a doghouse.

Sounds cute, but apparently it’s on a banned books list because, well, gay. Oh, no, not because the siblings are gay, or are reading gay stories, or have gay parents but because the author’s name is Marie-Louise Gay.

Yes, the book was added to a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s section of Alabama’s Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system because, as HCPL executive director Cindy Hewitt noted there was the word “gay.”

Seriously.

Remember when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into the presidential race and the GOP was thrilled because they thought he'd take votes away from Joe Biden and help Inmate # P01135809 win and perhaps govern, not from the Oval Office but from the prison laundry?

Well, things have changed since RFK started spouting some of his wingnuttery, and changed even more when he announced he might run as an Independent. If that happens Biden goes from being ahead of the criminal by 3 points to being ahead by seven points.. Kennedy’s presence erodes Inmate # P01135809’s lead among independents and cuts into his support among Republicans.

Go for RFK.

And to cleanse the palate of crazy, here’s a couple of the cats … Consuelo sunning in the sunroom during our recent cold mornings as it is the warmest room in the house, while Rosita sleeps on the bed … or pretends to sleep?

This is model and actor Henry Watkins of the dazzling smile—yes, I know, it’s just that one photo but still—and beautiful body. But the real issue is: Would You Hit It?