The Dog Update

I just got off the phone with the vet.  They had a couple of cancellations today and so were able to go ahead and operate on her this afternoon.  The meniscus was torn and they were able to do they repair they had planned on.  But she also had a lot of arthritis in her [...]

Sacredness and Magic and Such

I still think the result of this trip to the vet is going to be favorable, because the doctor who will be operating on Mrs. Wigglebottom is Dr. Ochin, which is pronounced ‘Dr. Ocean,’ but which I immediately heard as ‘Dr. Oshun’ and I thought that anyone who carries with him every day the name [...]

Who’s the Elitist Here?

Bill Hobbs seems to think that the reason the whole Ayers/Wright/Obama triangle hasn’t caught on is that it’s too complicated for ordinary people to understand.
I have to admit, I am secretly curious about what it would be like to be completely unmoored from the positions you take from one moment to the next, one post [...]

Mrs. Wigglebottom Was Not Pleased, To Put It Mildly

The trip to the vet was horrible.  Let me just start off saying up front that it is her ACL and that they’re going to fix it and all will be fine, so that we have that out of the way.
And then let me repeat that it was horrible.  No one at the vet’s office [...]

Dog of My Heart

I’m about a half an hour away from leaving for the vet with Mrs. Wigglebottom.  I made the mistake of watching an episode of Bones last night that contained the Dog Whisperer and a story about a German Shepherd forced to kill for its master.  As an aside, I’ll just say that a slightly smarter [...]