Why are Elephants protected and not Lutherans? The number of elephants has tripled in the last six months, but I bet you can't say the same about Lutherans! I feel so unloved. Stephen Colbert, you're on notice!

(Actually, all of Wikipedia is currently locked down. Rarrr! Stephen smash!)

(Mom bought a stack of thirty-year-old comic books while I left her unsupervised last weekend. I think she's still sitting upstairs reading them all.)

(OH! And while I'm being all comics geeky, was there really an episode of B:tAS (or Batman the original TV series) where Catwoman gave Bats mind-control drugs? It seems more like the sort of thing Ivy would do. In fact, I know Ivy did it in the cartoons at least twice. Catwoman more brings to mind bondage and domination, really.)

(On the other hand, it apparently *is* possible to run into a Category One cyclone off Tripoli. Who knew? (Hey, the Pearl had to end up in Denmark *somehow*. q:))