I hate cats.

For a while, I’ve thought it was a genetic thing. My dad’s supposedly allergic to them (but he says that about cinnamon too, and that’s just blatantly untrue.. Dave will no doubt make a parallel, either on blog or off, that the same is true of my lactose intolerance, but we’ve already had that debate, and i won’t rehash it here). Maybe my dad’s “hate-cats” trait was passed on to me.

The more I think about it, my disdain of felines can be traced to one event: when i was nine years old, i tried to play with my neighbor’s cat, and it bit me. it was an hornery cat. they were hornery neighbors.

It’s scary how childhood is a punctuated equilibrium, how life-changing moments happen without you knowing that they are life-changing (i guess that doesn’t only apply to childhood)..

I hate cats.

For a while, I’ve thought it was a genetic thing. My dad’s supposedly allergic to them (but he says that about cinnamon too, and that’s just blatantly untrue.. Dave will no doubt make a parallel, either on blog or off, that the same is true of my lactose intolerance, but we’ve already had that debate, and i won’t rehash it here). Maybe my dad’s “hate-cats” trait was passed on to me.

The more I think about it, my disdain of felines can be traced to one event: when i was nine years old, i tried to play with my neighbor’s cat, and it bit me. it was an hornery cat. they were hornery neighbors.

It’s scary how childhood is a punctuated equilibrium, how life-changing moments happen without you knowing that they are life-changing (i guess that doesn’t only apply to childhood)..

the only people i’m seeing in the aftermath of the hurricane disaster are black people, hispanic people, and obese white people..

the people who died and are suffering are, overwhelmingly, poor.

this is a national tragedy that is highlighting a more subtle and permanent national tragedy.