[evolved_rage]

Quick, call Richard Gere. He'll stuff'm back in.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

In related news, several hours after the event, hits on the Internet site Democratic Underground nearly tripled...

[FairOpinion]

The Brass Rat.

A tourist walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very life-like, life-sized brass statue of a rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking he decides he must have it. He took it to the owner: "How much for the brass rat?"

"Twelve dollars for the rat, one hundred dollars for the story," said the owner.

The tourist gave the man twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story."

As he walked down the street carrying his brass rat, he noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and began following him down the street. This was disconcerting. He began walking faster. But within a couple blocks, the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing. He began to trot toward the Bay, looking around tosee that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster. Concerned, even scared, he ran to the edge of the Bay, and threw the brass rat as far out into the Bay as he could. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after it, and were all drowned.

The man walked back to the curio shop.

"Ah ha," said the owner, "you have come back for the story?"

"No," said the man, "I came back to see if you have a brass Democrat."

[Ichneumon]

Quick, tip over a truck full of cats!

[AnAmericanMother]

Life imitates art.

There's a Gary Larsen cartoon of a cat indoors looking longingly out the window at the wreck of a truck labeled "JOE'S RODENTS AND SMALL FLIGHTLESS BIRDS".

[radiohead]

"As cold as it is outside, we couldn't just leave them," Davis said. "I just started throwing them in back of the ambulance."

I realize we are a great country and we do great things, but I often think that our greatness is built from the many little things we do as well.

mouse and gerbil bump!

[Corin Stormhands]

My home town ping.

[Corin Stormhands]

[Prime Choice]

I think the rats staged their escape to clear up some things regarding their being compared to Democrats...