On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

1. Meet some more people who believe that, in religion, there must always be compulsion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD

2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding

3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738

4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650

5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770

1. Some of you may have heard about these three box-grabbing cats in Langford, BC. This is an update to that story-meme. These cats aren't the Scalzi Family Scamperbeasts, but they've been having a moment.

2. Indigenous control over Indigenous education makes more progress towards returning to pre-Contact normal.

...for the stare of a cat is merciless.



Taken a year ago this month.

...and found wanting, for the stare of a cat is merciless.

And for those of us with more conventional preferences in therapy animals, closer to my home...

http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2017/04/30/ottawa-cat-cafe-set-to-open-its-doors-in-hintonburg-.html

Thanks to hawkward and Frankie for the photo...