Cats, Idiot Politicians and the Vast Wasteland; Tab Clearing Edition

Did you know that cats can get acne? Jake did. Last month, he was scratching under his jaw hard enough to draw blood. The vet wasn't sure what it was, but it looked kind of infected. Antibiotics cleared that up, but yesterday, Jake was scratching at the same spot hard enough to draw blood. So in he went to the vet, who said it looked like a pimple and that if it was something else, it wouldn't have gone away so easy. So the vet "expressed" it with a pair of tweezers and out came a small white mass of crap that sure looked like it came from a pimple.

Behind Door #1, is an idiot politician is someone who is crammed inside the GOP Clown Car. Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), thinks that if a gun isn't used to steal shit, then it's not a crime: "Well first of all, for a criminal practice, there has to be a gun. It's pretty simple." Somebody should ask Idiot #1 if Bernie Madoff should be released from his retirement home in FCC Butner.

Behind Door #2 is the soon-to-be-ex-Mayor of San Diego Bob Filner (a Democrat). One woman after another is stepping forward to tell how he sexually harassed them. The latest accuser is a 67-year old great-grandmother. The victim count is fifteen women and rising. Filner apparently thinks that harassing people is part of his job and he asked the City Council to pay his legal bill. They told him to fuck off. Filner has sexually harassed so many people that even Cardinal Bernie Law is saying "really?"

Now, over to the Vast Wasteland. I do like the show "Longmire", but c'mon guys, do a spot of research! Hell, hire the guy who wrote the goddamn books as a technical adviser or something. The latest episode, "Natural Order", opened with the murder of a game warden. It took about a nanosecond for the gun fora to point out that the game wardens in the show were wearing khaki shirts and Smokey hats and that everyone was referring to the "Department of Fish and Game" while in Wyoming, the game wardens wear red shirts and favor baseball caps (if not cowboy hats) and they work for the Department of Game and Fish. (OK, their full-dress uniform has striped trousers and a Smokeyish hat, but they don't wear that out in the field.) Shit, people making the show, do a better job. Sure, there is no Absaroka County but the show is set in a real state.

Finally, tonight is John Oliver's last night behind the anchor desk of the Daily Show. I think he's done a hell of a good job at it and, frankly, if Jon Stewart didn't come back, I don't think I'd miss him very much. If anything, as a Brit ex-pat, Oliver is better placed to call "bullshit" on American political fuckery.