... In fact, I would submit that cats and kittens might outnumber porn [on the Internet] at this point.
"You're probably right about that," says Scott Lamb, a senior editor at the trend-spotting site Buzzfeed. "That might be for the very prosaic reason that producing anything involving kittens is just so much easier than producing porn." After all, we're a nation of shutterbug narcissists, and cats are the closest thing at hand. "Panda ownership is not so common," he says, "but perhaps if it were, panda videos would be even more popular."
From The Internet is Made of Kittens by Sarah Hepola, at salon.com, Feb. 10, 2009
I haven't been blogging much recently -- kids have been off and on home sick from school, and I've been looking for a job. (Employment. Position. Line of work. Post. "Situation," if I go all Gothic and become a governess on a country estate). The two don't go together well, especially when the kids have been just barely sick enough to not be at school, so they are in full spirits at home.
You'll get to judge for yourself -- should we all get pandas as pets?
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