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Cats are kind of strange.
I guess this will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody. For people who don't much care for cats, it probably goes a long way toward explaining why they... well, don't much care for cats. And for those of us who inexplicably do like the fuzzy little maniacs, I guess it is at least one of the reasons why we do.
It's been a while since I've talked about my cats here. We're down to two now, Libby, a.k.a. "The Phantom," and Mindy, a.k.a. "I'm Not Fat, I'm Just Fluffy." Aside from my wife and the vet, nobody living has actually seen Libby for a couple of years. I know she's real, though, on account of the steady conversion of money to cat food then to stinky litter, with an occasional vet bill thrown in.
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As we all know, the Chinese invented gunpowder. Being deeply philosophical thinkers, it did not take them too long before they saw how useful the stuff could be for transforming entire enemy armies into big holes in the ground.
As a point of reference, this was at about the time in European history when chucking a spear at someone you didn't much care for was the pinnacle of modern military technology.
After a while the Chinese decided that even if you didn't have any bad guys around that you wanted to blow into bad-guy hash, you should still be able have fun with your gunpowder, and so they invented fireworks.
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There is something I get to do on the Fourth of July that is even more fun than all the Ballpark Franks that will be ritually sacrificed to charcoal flames in our nation's parks and beaches and backyards. More fun than the bottle rockets that will set fire to many of our nation's finest picnic table umbrellas and halter tops. Even more fun than all the beer that will anesthetize the sunburned bellies of our nation's countless middle-aged revelers.
For about an hour on the Fourth of July I get to "be" Woody Guthrie at our local library's "We The People" program. This is a celebration of some of the great patriots in American history, of the words and ideas they used to change the world forever. I get to sit with the likes of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. I'll sing about riding my pony in the Oklahoma hills, and I'll sing about how this land was made for you and me.
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