August 2012 - Argghhh!

Goodbye, Bug, you irascible little bundle of grumpy. Even if you weren't ours, your stay with us was memorable. 7 years was nowhere near enough for your shadow to darken the litterbox... Just to be clear, Bug owned Wendy Sullivan who is now ronin . He spent a few months with us back in 2007 when we moved to the New Castle. He liked to sit in my lap and be happy to get pets. However... .precisely at 5PM, he would turn, snarl, and make it clear that Happy Time was over and we had moved to Glower...

About as pure as it gets, in terms of war. No non-combatants, no civil infrastructure. Just two bands of primates and their machines, going after one another, in a contest of brain, brawn, and will....

Heh. The Labor Department is certainly trying to walk a very thin rope with this one: "Questions have recently been raised as to whether the WARN Act requires Federal contractors - including, in particular, contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD) - whose contracts may be terminated or reduced in the event of sequestration on January 2, 2013, to provide WARN Act notices 60 days before that date to their workers employed under government contracts funded from sequestrable accounts. The...