[Fudd Fan]

But cats know just the right time to curl up in your lap and purrrr! They know you will melt when they do it.

[sofaman]

not with me...never really been a cat person...I'm definitely a dog man.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

This morning on our local/regional talk show, the host (Jim Quinn) read an interesting e-mail from a lawyer who had a friend who had once clerked for Alito in the 3rd Circuit. The lawyer related his friend's account of a judge who'd just been appointed by Clinton to take a slot on the Circuit. This judge, apparently flush with herself and her recent success, invested lavishly in a pair of ostentatious Chinese lions that she pretentiously had placed flanking the doorway of her chambers.

Alito, wanting to teach her a suble lesson, ordered his clerks to go out and find two garish pink flamingos, which he had mounted on cardboard boxes and positioned outside his chambers to mock the Chinese lions. Then he invited all the Circuit judges and their staffs to a little breakfast in his chambers to show them off. The Clinton appointed judge got the message, and sadly had the lions moved inside her chambers.