Ronen said Little Mouse could see shapes but I’m calling bs on that. Not only can I not get him to react to moving my finger in front of his face unless my finger touches one of his eyebrow whiskers but tonight he felt his way across the couch and was like holy sheeit More >
I usually sleep in ‘late’ on Wednesdays, meaning 7:30, being really tired from my long teaching Tuesday. I usually get home around 10:30 on Tuesdays and fall into bed sans dinner but it was nearly 2 in the morning when I got to bed last night, having to do lots of Mousie care-taking. More >
Hat tip to Jihad Watch:
GREENBELT, Md. ‘
He wanted to die, in his words “the Islamic way” — meaning taking out as many innocent civilians as possible with him.
A 25-year-old man described as an Islamic extremist was arrested in an alleged plot to attack crowded areas in the Tampa, Fla., area with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives, authorities said More >
Last night while I was skypeing with my Ema, Little Mouse rolled himself off the sofa where he had been sitting beside me. I was like, hang a sec Ema, he just fell off the couch, let me get him …and then, to our utter delight, he got up before I could reach down More >
I was up most of the night with Little Mouse. My post-midnight call to Ronen shed light on why he’d just started yowling out of the blue and without cease: it is common among cats with this sort of brain damage in the first few weeks. He ceased yowling when wrapped in More >
Play this video for them and watch them first all run into the room, then turn tail and all try to run out, then run all over:
D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown has floated a plan to require high school students to apply to college or trade school — even if the students have no interest in attending. According to this idiot, some D.C. students aren’t going to college simply because they “don’t know how to navigate the enrollment More >
The Muslim Brotherhood denied on Saturday that it had assured Washington it would uphold the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty and the second in command says the MB will not recognize Israel under any circumstances.
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Thursday that the Islamist movement, the clear victor in the first round of More >
Check out Sandmonkey’s blog for the latest on the deteriorating situation in Egypt. The U.S. has some new nightmares for the secular revolutionaries who brought down Mubarak’s regime –you know it is bad when even the NYTimes seems taken aback by the reversal of decades of policy the Obama administration is currently doing as More >
This is starting to heat up as people are managing to lever their jaws closed. The WSJ has this to say: “Remember those terrible days of the Imperial Presidency, when George W. Bush made several “recess appointments” to overcome Senate opposition? Well, Czar George II never did attempt what President Obama did yesterday in More >
Update: He’s out and I can’t decide if I should change his name to Little Rat or Little Seal. It was a what goes in doesn’t necessary fit back out situation and I finally got him out by carefully moving the fridge away from the wall and pulling him out through a hole More >
I’ve got to rein in my expectations. Maybe it is natural to feel like “when he just gets home!” that in addition to the joy of having the little loved thing/one home, improvement will just match the joy. Happiness at having Mousie home is not diminished but my short-term expectations have gotten more More >
It has been a long day but I’ve mastered the rehabilitation exercises Mousie will need in the next week, thanks to Ronen and the specialist he brought in from our national vet teaching hospital. Mousie, even tireder than I am, is sleeping peacefully in the largest carrier here in the living room. Tomorrow More >
Stem cells can halt ageing – and even prolong lifespans up to three times, scientists say. An experiment showed that a single injection of stem cells could make mice live three times as long.
The injection also made the mice grow bigger and stronger.
Scientists think that studying the proteins within stem cells might hold the More >
A popular Israeli-Arab singer had to cancel a show on New Year’s Eve in the West Bank because of threats from Palestinian activists opposed to coexistence with Israel, the performer and police said.
It was the latest in a string of cancellations after threats and other pressure tactics by Palestinians groups promoting a boycott of virtually More >
Guys if this doesn’t seem portentous for a good New Year, I don’t know what would: Little Mouse sat up today all by himself!!!!
He had a really hard time doing it, struggling and struggling to get upright and falling over several times but when Ronen came in with the food, Little Mouse seemed More >
Wow in some ways I feel like I fell into a time machine or something writing 2012. When I was a little kid, back when everything was 19… I used 2012 as a benchmark of “whoa the future!” and wondered what it would be like, picturing all kinds of cool things (mostly based off More >
There’s not too much to report on Little Mouse so far. In the middle of getting an update on his condition this morning an emergency was brought in and Ronen said he’d call me back as soon as he could. He is able to lick and eat, though Ronen is hand feeding him More >
I will hopefully know a lot more tomorrow but tonight some things are already clear and the news is guardedly promising. If you missed the mini update attached to the previous, unrelated, post, the good news I got this morning was that not only did Little Mouse survive the night but he has come More >