May 27th 2008 8:06 am
I'd completely forgotten I started this online diary, and lately I've been urged by friends and family to take it up again. I have my reservations about maintaining a "web-log," since I don't particularly see the need to air my dirty laundry or post public confessionals or whatever it is others do with these blogs.
Kurtis encouraged me to see the weblog as an opportunity to share my thoughts, to take the stage as a public intellectual, one who articulates the tabby perspective on pressing social and political issues. I reflected on this for a while and thought, yes, I do have a desire to pontificate in that regard. Hence the re-titling and fresh start on this weblog.
For example, the milk issue. There is much attention in the national press about world hunger and escalating food prices, but little specificity on milk futures. This is the most serious Tabby-related issue since the tainted food disaster of last year (about which I have much to say, but will now restrain myself).
Milk is important to tabby cats. We take a small bowl of lactose-free milk every morning at precisely when mom gets up, heated up to 72 degrees farenheit. Now, corn is often the main food of cows, and furthermore fuel is required to transport the corn to the cattle and the milk to the grocery store. There is a direct link between the commodities that are currently spiking in value and the affordability of milk. This is of grave concern to tabby cats around the world.
However, this black cloud does have a silver lining. One possibility is that as milk prices go up, the demand for milk will subside, and the cost will come back down. Another possibility is that milk will be sold in smaller quantities, wasted less, and bought more frequently and therefor more likely to be fresh.
For my part, I will endeavor to finish my milk every morning so not a drop is wasted. It is encumbant upon tabbies to play our role in managing the crisis.
Yours in tabbitude,
- Bertram Ocelot
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