Sprucing Things Up...

Well, as promised, I have tidied up the blog a bit. The Kitty Kill Count gets to stay - it seems to be the one thing that everyone looks at!

Looking at the outclicks from my blog, I doubt that many people used my blogroll as a portal on a regular basis, so I decided to change the static, alphabetical order to one which reflects recent updates. However, with over 100 blogs on the roll, it would be a hassle to have all of them up with the snippets of the latest posts, so I opted for the 25 most recent. I also pruned out the dead ones, and any which were invitation-only.

UPDATE: I have put the full blogroll further down the sidebar - I missed being able to see the whole list!

Mistakes do occasionally happen. If you see that your blog does not appear on the blogroll, let me know and I will consider its reinstatement!

Feeling Uninspired...

The start of term has sucked all inspiration and energy from my brain. The cats appear to feel much the same way, and are refusing to do anything cute for the camera. In desperation I pinched this from the Cheezburger Lolcats site...

It made me smile... 

Some Things Never Change...

Back in March, the incomparable Fr. Z posted evidence that kitties have always demonstrated the tendency to walk all over one's work, be it on laptop, foolscap or parchment...

Fr. Z speculated on the possible response of the monk whose work this was, but I suspect that the reaction was probably more like the one I encountered at school yesterday...

"Miss, my book appears to be all muddy..."

"Ah, yes... I need to apologise for that. I'm afraid my cat jumped on it... Sorry about that."

"Oh, that's ok Miss..."

*Loud chorus of voices from around the room accompanied by scuffling sounds as several teenagers try to get a good look...* "What, you've got cat prints on your book? Can I see them...? Go on, show me..."

A Lighter Note...

The powers that be in North Korea seem to be doing a little sabre-rattling. It is difficult to take them seriously when the leader bears an uncanny resemblance to the star of Gangnam Style...

Also, the army patrol along the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong doesn't look too threatening...

Picture Credit: REUTERS/Jacky Chen

Let's face it, they're not going to get very far in those heels, right?

Mind you, there's always the possibility of nuclear conflict...

More Thoughts On Gosnell...

The case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell is truly horrific. The silence of the mainstream media is disgraceful. However, the attempt at a media blackout has been thwarted because the mainstream media is no longer able to decide what constitutes news.

People react strongly if they feel something is being covered up. There were a lot of calls for the mainstream media to report on the trial and what the charges are. Twitter reached around 23,000 tweets per hour on Friday on the Gosnell case, and that can't have gone unnoticed. So the continuing silence is rather spectacular.

I would just like to reassure my readers that none of the links in this post have any distressing images (unlike the ones I warned about in yesterday's post.)

Several blogs have reported the case in full. Ben Trovato, Mark Lambert and Joe Shaw were able to get the message out from the UK, and bloggers at The Telegraph have now picked up on this, with Damian Thompson and Tim Stanley both writing excellent pieces. It is still not front page news, and this is something I find pretty amazing, even though I know it is something the overwhelmingly pro-choice mainstream media would like to ignore.

Google now has several entries for Kermit Gosnell (it didn't have on Friday!) and the Wikipedia page on Dr. Gosnell has changed from "is under consideration for deletetion" to "was under consideration" so I suppose that is some sort of progress.

Yesterday, I felt sure that the mainstream media would have to bow to public pressure and report on the case of Kermit Gosnell killing babies after they had survived abortion. After all, despite its awful record on human rights and its draconian one-child policy involving forced partial-birth abortions, even the Chinese government allows a child to live once it has been born.

However, Ben Trovato (the Countercultural Father) has given the media silence some considerable thought, and concluded that the media is marshalling its arguments so as to place a pro-abortion spin upon them. His post is really outstanding in its analysis, and I think that we need to heed his warning and prepare for the onslaught.