Wed, 31 Jan 2007

Cat Confessions

Who's to blame? I can only blame myself. Like most problems, the beginnings of the downward slide were almost imperceptible at first. You think you're doing a good thing, the right thing. But little by little, you find yourself falling further down the slippery slope, being drawn deeper and deeper into an ever-growing nightmare, until one day you find yourself at rock bottom, wondering just how you ever got into this mess in the first place, your life shot to hell.

Health problems? Drug or alcohol addiction? Financial irresponsibility? No, my problem is far more intractable than any of these, for it is neither an addiction nor a simple dependency. Instead, I have become the codependent and enabler of my spouse's obsession, an obsession that has stripped away any vestiges of a peaceful and quiet life for me.

I refer, of course, to life with cats.

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Posted Jan 31, 2007 at 17:18 UTC, 3094 words,  [/rich]  Permalink

Sum and Difference

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
– Winston Churchill

Churchill's quote really drives to the heart of the matter. It makes the point, in a somewhat sarcastic way, that the problems with democracy are known and acknowledged, and yet inevitable. Implicit in his sarcasm is the sober warning that the troubles associated with democracy are not a ready excuse for dismissing it when what it says appears inconvenient.

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Posted Jan 31, 2007 at 14:38 UTC, 3367 words,  [/dan]  Permalink