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- Bruce on Ode to a Cat
- Aslandad on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
- Rotating Pilgrim on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
- Rotating Pilgrim on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
- Rotating Pilgrim on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
Category Archives: News
What’s to come?
What to write about? I’m brainstorming some topics I can write about but I just haven’t made time for reading/writing like I used to enjoy in college.
I have some essays and books I’d like to discuss and dissect. Hopefully I can put something together for the next week.
I can’t hardly expect to draw any sort of audience if I’m not producing content. So, enough talk. Hope to have something to show for it soon.
On the Contributions of Cats to Society
In an article for Scientific American, Carlos A. Driscoll discusses genetic and archaeological findings that give us hints about the domestication of cats from wild creatures into house pets. A line that caught my eye:
Cats contribute virtually nothing in the way of sustenance or work to human endeavor.
I disagree.
Cats kill vermin, mice, rats, snakes, etc., which harm humans. Doing this they also help to prevent food loss and disease amongst humans. They help prevent nasty things like the Plague. The ancients knew this and cats were invaluable to urban human development. In the recent gold mining settlements cats were imported, and a ‘good mouser’ was worth the weekly wage of a man!
Oh, and they’re cute.
They contribute to cuteness.