Snark of the day

From Yglesias:

What you do with the contracting is that instead of handing money over to unionized public sector workers who hand some of the money back to Democratic Party politicians, you hand the money over to a contracting firm that hands some of the money back to Republican Party politicians.

Link thanks to The Agitator.

A seasonable cat

A warm furry cat is a very pleasant thing during the other half of the year. Now that we're getting heat waves, I have fantasies of a refrigerator cat which blows the hot air out its rear end. However, that's a future tech, if ever.

I was doing some sitting meditation, and Gillian just draped her tail over my foot. Smart cat.