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Devastating news. Car Talk is going off the air in September. The boys are retiring. I guess that's something you get to do after thirty-five successful years on the radio. Now I need to find something else to do on Saturday mornings. Any suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks in advance.

"Sigmund Freud had two white tigers. One of them attacked him."

Just one of the many gems from this tumblr that increasingly makes me lose all faith in the future of our society. And then a personal favorite: "Mary Antwinet is famous for saying “let the meat cake.” She was a leader of the French revelation. She was very popular and fashionable until she died from guilty."

I don't want to believe that this is real, but that nagging feeling tells me it is.

Goodbye, Charlie.

If you saw my Facebook status two days ago, you knew that Charlie was sick. Well, the worst turned out to be true. She had Feline Infectious Peritonitis, a fatal cat disease. There is no cure, and it's contagious among cats. The vet thinks she probably contracted it at the shelter before she got the vaccination for it, as the disease usually takes a while to manifest itself. The best course of action was to put her down so she wouldn't have to suffer anymore, and so Chloe wasn't exposed to it any longer. She was the sweetest, and we miss her. A lot. My only consolation at the moment is that she spent the last few months of her life living happily in a comfortable home instead of the cage she was living in when we got her from the shelter.

she cuddled with us all night and this morning until it was time to go to the vet. 
such a sweetheart.