These are perfect!

The cats and I have never discussed these things, but I think that it can be inferred, simply from their behaviour...

How I See Things vs. How My Cat Sees Things

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This is good!

How to Behave at Mass

The list here is pretty good.

Three things really bother me at Mass - the first is hats. On men. Just because it is fashionable for men to wear hats again (other than ball caps or cowboy hats), one takes them off at Mass, or inside anywhere really, just out of respect. Men don't do that anymore it seems.

The second is gum. How on earth do people receive Communion yet still manage to keep chomping away on their wad of gum? That boggles my mind.

Third is water. I can understand the choir needing a bit of water, particularly during a longer Mass for a special event, but how did people ever live without that regular, every 5 minute sip of water from their purchased water bottle? People have really been sucked in by marketers on this issue. Come on, folks! You can go an hour without regular sips of water. Honestly!

(I'm not mentioning cell phones just because the whole cell phone thing has just gotten stupid. Why do you need one anyway? You're not that important, nor are your converstations. Really!

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stuff

Selling my mother's dresses is a touching consideration of heirlooms and objects by Abbie Sher.

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this is a very cool story

Pulitzer-winning photog breaks up bank robbery

Komenich said, "My main reason for doing it was that it seemed like the guy was down on his luck. I just didn't want things to escalate. It was sort of a half-baked attempt at a bank robbery."

He added, "All my life, I've been a witness. I haven't really intervened because it was my job to watch."

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Anyone who has had one in the family

knows that dogs easily learn right from wrong, and it's more than just fear of retribution, they honestly feel badly about their wrong behaviour...

The Ethical Dog

"Looking for the roots of human morality in the animal kingdom? Focus on canines, who know how to play fair"

Zeussie, our last, lovely dog, who shuffled off a few years ago, was one of the types of dogs who had good control of her facial muscles. When she was happy she could smile (and did she ever smile, particularly for ice cream!), she also could show the most 'hang-dog' look when she knew she had done something wrong, and she could engage in the most distracting behaviour to try to distract us from finding out that she had done something wrong.

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