Finally, someone is going after the Jolly Rancher threat!

Many of you have noted, with alarm, the dreadful evil concealing itself as a Jolly Rancher. For the few of you who may be unaware of this notorious substance, it consists of tiny hard candies wrapped in plastic wraps put into yet another plastic bag. Quite apart from the resulting environmental nightmare, the worst part is that since they are small, you can easily think, "Oh, this is nothing," and suck on one, and then suck on another one, and before you know it, you are DOOMED. DOOMED, I say.

Fortunately, the great state of Texas is here to defend us all against the encroachment of Jolly Ranchers, by putting a third grader in detention for a week for possessing one. I applaud.

My belated, largely pointless, commentary and follow-up on the British election:

Either the new prime minister David Cameron is considerably taller than I thought, or the Queen is getting really short.

....what? Look at the picture and tell me I am wrong.

Another historic moment!

Many of you have claimed, with some justification, that I am in fact only owned by one cat, not two, however many stories I may tell about the Grey One, this because the vast majority of you have never seen the Grey One given her interdimensional travelling skills (I cannot otherwise explain her ability to vanish like that) and her opinion of cameras as the equivalent of nuclear weapons. (I can't figure out how it is that she knows I'm pointing a camera in her general direction or why cameras send her running. I am not the paparazzi.)

But in a historic moment, we have a picture. An actual picture. It is not, alas, very good, since I was far too close to both cats and the camera had a problem with the light and while I was attempting to adjust that she sprang up and used that interdimensional travelling ability again. But here we go: actual proof that two cats do indeed live here ( Cut for large images: )