Snip has decided that it's time for me to feed her and go to bed:

This can't be comfortable.

This can't be comfortable.
- New Thing Learned for 16 May: Pius IX was the last Pope to hold temporal power, and the first to be photographed. We shall leave it to the Reader to imagine an occult connection between these two items. [Source: something on PBS I wasn't entirely listening to from the next room.]
- New Thing Learned for 17 May: There have been more than a thousand books written on the Kennedy assasination. [Source: Countdown with Keith Olbermann.]
- New Thing Learned for 18 May: The Evanston Public Library's online service now includes a column for "# of times renewed", which would be more useful if I could ever remember how many times one gets to renew what categories of books... [Source: www.epl.org.]