Monkey cat

Never has my cat looked more like a colobus monkey than when she's trying to navigate the ladder to my loft. I am cruelly, cruelly laughing at her.

(It's okay; she got back at me when she attacked my feet going up the ladder and nearly caused my plummety doom.)

Stories

I don't want to sound callous, but I don't think there's any way to bring this up without sounding callous, so:

The deaths in London are a tragedy, make no mistake. But the weekly death toll in Iraq from terrorist bombings is more or less equivalent. The disparity between our reactions to the two surprises and confuses me. The Iraqis who die have stories, too.