"Apollo!! Nooo!!"

Apollo's got a bit of a tummy bug. The pills the vet prescribed are not to his liking, so after trying to force them down his throat and putting them into Pill Pockets ("Wrap the pill in tuna! Your cat will never know!") unsuccessfully, Chris and Justin decided to grind the pills into his food. Problem: Jehovah's food doesn't have ground-up Yuck in it. Apollo sees no reason why he shouldn't just eat her food instead. So he has to be kept in the boys' room, upstairs, until he finishes his mediciney food, so that he doesn't just eat all of Jehovah's food instead.

This means that every time the door to the boys' room is opened, somebody ends up shouting "Apollo! NOOO!" and running after him as he makes a break for it. Usually he gets down one set of stairs, skids around the corner and is halfway down to the basement before anybody catches him.

Another hip hop happenin' Friday night

• Why I ended up looking at a video about a do-it-yourself-colon-cleanser is not important. But there's this woman on the video and she's got this colon cleanser thing going, and it's not graphic at all but it's, you know, doing its colonic thing, and then the voiceover says, "Gently rub the stomach, using your hand, or a tennis ball..."
  
  I confess, I did not watch the entire video and have never experienced the... um... pleasures of a cleansing, so I may be missing something. But all I can think is, You're on Youtube, with a tube up your butt, pumping cleanser in and out of your bowels, and... you're getting dainty about what you're going to use to rub your stomach?!
  
  
  
• I want to read all of these books:
  
  
  1. The Mismeasure of Woman
     
     
  2. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
     
     
  3. How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
     
     
  4. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
     
     
  5. 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
     
     
  6. The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
  
  
  Why can't I read all of these books? Right now?
  
  
• OK, who got the right answer here?
  
  

Canadian politicians we have heard on high

• "In terms of whether I've ever tried or been tempted [to smoke marijuana]? In terms of tried, I think you know that I've said before that I'm asthmatic. I cannot smoke and have never smoked anything. In terms of temptation I will leave any comment on that to my dialogue with my maker."
  - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister (2002)
  
  
• "Not even a cigarette. It's true I'm not controversial."
  - Tony Clement, Treasury Board President (2002)
  
  
• "Yeah, in my teenage years. A couple of times. I have to admit: I didn't like it."
  - Jim Flaherty, Finance Minister (2002)
  
  
• "Yes, and some might say I never exhaled."
  - Jack Layton, Leader of the NDP
  
  
• "I have smoked pot as a young man, yes ... and it's one of the reasons why I urge young people not to repeat the experience."
  - Michael Ignatieff, Former Liberal leader (2011)
  
  
• "The answer is: I never smoked. I never smoked anything, but there was an earlier time, years ago, when (my wife) made some brownies and they did have a strange taste."
  - Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister (2003)
  
  
• "I am not a fan of marijuana use. I have to confess this — I know all politicians are asked. I've never used marijuana. I apologize."
  - Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader ( 2008)
  
  
• "When I was 14, someone tried to offer me marijuana and I remember trying to smoke it but I coughed and I got nothing out of it."
  - Helena Guergis, former Conservative MP (2010)