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I was eating some grapes

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I was eating some grapes & Cody kept begging me for some. I gave him one, but he turned his nose up at it and then came back to beg some more. He started batting that grape around the floor and playing with it like it was the best cat toy ever, but he wouldn’t eat it. I then gave him the stems, which he also played with and kept batting around.

He’s the cutest thing in the world sometimes.

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14216 ª January 27 1:59 PM. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will be launching a morals program designed to teach high school students about “fundamental values and universal moral precepts.” This in response to his observation that high school students did not feel a sense of outrage after September 11. Kennedy warned against trying to rationalize the actions of the terrorists, saying that “an explanation becomes the excuse.” Do you think the justice system should be in the business of telling people the correct moral response to these events? [MetaFilter]

Sheeeeesh!

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14204 ª January 27 1:24 AM. When this appears in newspapers across America tomorrow morning, will dad choke on his Special K and think of his number tucked in the drawer, or will he feel outrage and disgust at the public discussion of drugs ? [MetaFilter]

I’m not advocating the use of drugs, but I often wonder why pot is illegal while alcohol and tobacco are legal. Both are much more harmful, cause many more deaths, and cause much more lost productivity.

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14199 ª January 26 4:43 PM. A little beyond shredding documents… According to Human Rights Watch, the irrepressible Enron paid local police to beat, harass, and intimidate farmers and fishermen in India who opposed the building of their new power plant in their backyards. Does this, after Exxon-Mobil was taken to court for building torture centers in Indonesia, call into question the power of small states vis a vis humongous multinational corporations? [MetaFilter]