Covert Kitten Attack:
You sit on the toilet, Chiva jumps up on the tub in from of you, but behind the shower curtain. You have to try to poke her without her attacking your finger first. She gives no indication that she can see your finger until she attacks it.
Hide and seek and tag
This one is the hardest to explain. Basically, Chiva goes into one room and I go into another. Then we sneak peeks at each other. After a while one of us tries to sneak to the other’s room. If you successfully make it to the room then you and the cat scream and dash out to the living room. If you get caught then you have to pick another room (there are 5 on this hallway) and start over.
SUPERBALL!!!
The cats love this one. I stand in the living room and bounce a super ball off the front wall so that it ricochets down the hall. Then the cats go tearing after it. Chiva will bring it back in her mouth, the others lay on it. A variation is to just make it ricochet off the walls in the living room. Cats also love this, but I think it is only a matter of time before I get in trouble over this one.

In a country where you have the right to say and believe whatever you want, you do NOT have the right to not be offended.

So now the ugly racists are rearing their heads. They can’t seem to separate the actions of a man and his organization from an entire race and religion. Perhaps they need to look at it another way…
Perhaps we should level Rome in retaliation for the ‘Christians’ who firebomb abortion clinics. Maybe go on a church-to-church revenge-driven rampage everytime some nut with a gun takes a shot at a doctor who is for all intents and purposes doing something wholly legal.
Or perhaps in response to the Oklahoma City bombing we should take to the streets and pull every white guy with a buzz cut and a pickup truck out and kick their asses. Send them the message that we won’t tolerate their ideals, let them know they aren’t welcome here. Send them back to Idaho and Michigan with the rest of their crazy militia brethren.
Doesn’t seem quite right, does it? We aren’t going to raze the Vatican just because a group of people with similar religious ideas did something contrary to our laws. And we are able to say that just because someone wears the sames clothes, has the same haircut and likes the same automobile as Timothy McVeigh, they don’t necessarily subscribe to his beliefs.
The retaliatory racism is the one thing that pushes my pain to anger. Blinding, white anger. It is the one thing that could possibly cause me to become violent, and I don’t like that feeling.