Comments on: Just Catching Up (plus Tweets)

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:12:41 +0000

In reply to Randall Schenck. I've got a whole series of cartoons with the theme that Putin is the US President. I will post a few one day.

By: Randall Schenck

Randall Schenck — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:46:26 +0000

Just a mention, but I wouldn’t worry about not having the time to cover the firing of the FBI guy. You will have plenty of time to cover that one later. It is simply par for the course in this useless Putin government. That reminds me, we could be doing plenty to put it directly to Putin and the Russians if we were not an annex of that government. It is very hard to criticize the boss you know. Now that Putin has taken over I think I will stop referring to the republican party because really, it does not exist. It is officially the Putin party.

By: Jenny Haniver

Jenny Haniver — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:24:11 +0000

In reply to nicky. Thanks. I wasn't familiar with Capuchin monkeys, other than knowing the name. I did a Google search and found lots of photos. They have incredibly expressive faces.

By: nicky

nicky — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:36:39 +0000

In reply to nicky. If I may expand a bit, there are about 10 species of Capuchins (there is a lot of infighting there), several of them (such as the blond capuchin, the golden-bellied capuchin or several sub-species) critically endangered. However, the brown or tufted capuchin shown is not. I always wondered why there are so many mammals in the Americas with prehensile tails, much more than on any other continent, not just New World monkeys, but also opossums, South American porcupines, anteaters and the Kinkajou. It must be an independently evolved trait (have common ancestors without it).

By: nicky

nicky — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:54:05 +0000

In reply to nicky. I'm quite sure it is the brown, aka black-capped or tufted capuchin, Sapajus apella. The 'robust' capuchins recently got their own genus, used to be Cebus apella , but that 'Cebus' name is reserved for the 'gracile' capuchins now. I think that the 'grimace' or closed mouth grin, shown on the photo, is considered to be a signal of appeasement and/or submission, contrary to the open mouth grin, which is a fear-threat.

By: nicky

nicky — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 05:40:58 +0000

In reply to Jenny Haniver. That is a Capuchin monkey, considered the most intelligent of New World monkeys.

By: Linda Calhoun

Linda Calhoun — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:30:02 +0000

In reply to nicky.

You bet.

Also, those kittens’ eyes are already open, which means that they are at least ten days old, which means that their chances of survival are much better than if they were younger.

All the franticness of the narrator is completely unnecessary. All those babies needed was a little common sense, which was fortunately supplied by the queen herself.

By: Heather Hastie

Heather Hastie — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:46:54 +0000

In reply to Jenny Haniver. I agree. I'll be keeping the info too.

By: Jenny Haniver

Jenny Haniver — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:17:38 +0000

In reply to Linda Calhoun. Excellent instructions. I copied this to save in case I find any newborn kittens that need rescuing; and will share it with others.

By: Jenny Haniver

Jenny Haniver — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:09:02 +0000

I, for one, am exceedingly glad that your site is now secure. It’s just as well that you didn’t post about the sacking of McCabe just yet. It gives you a bit of time to let your immediate reflections “cure”, so to speak, and the fallout has already begun, so you’ll have more threads to follow. I love the choice words that Brennan tweeted about Trump after he fired McCabe. Perhaps you’ll quote it in your upcoming post.

That fat little pink robin is terribly cute; and the lights on the palm trees are both beautiful and hilarious — I want to put those lights on our local palm trees — with blinking and winking and coruscating lights of multicolored seminal spume. Must be great when there’s a wind to rustle the fronds.

What is that creature on Robin Williams’ shoulder?