Cat Freaks
 

Can we not worry so much about who is a borderline cat-hoarding nutbag, and just institute a bright-line rule that cat people and dog people should never, ever date?

It's always a fucking disaster. Banning it, I think, would save a lot of pointless heartbreak in this world.

When I get that feeling, I need transsexual healing
 

In a years-long class action I worked on, our expert began a MTF sexual reassignment about a year before trial. The problem was, her expert depo had already been taken long before. My firm was faced with the dicey proposition of having its prime causation expert impeached by videotape of her male self.

I argued for keeping her because the rehabilitation would have been so delightful to watch. "Counsel, I was wrong about a lot of things back then."

Headlights and speed traps
 

Just last week we got flashed and as I finished saying "do people still signal speed traps anymore?" (but before I had a chance to add "I thought that urban legend about gang killings put an end to the practice") I saw the trooper, who was one of those macho, standing on the shoulder aiming the radar at you like a gun and pulling you over by waving angrily at you types.

That method of pulling people over just irritates the hell out of me, but it is better than having a trooper pace you for 10 minutes on a deserted country road in the middle of the night.

Cat Freaks
 

Should I be worried about the many couples I know who have both? Is divorce imminent?

People who hate cats should not date people who have cats, and people who hate dogs should not date people who have dogs. And people who hate lawyers shouldn't date one. That's like dating someone with a kid when you don't want to have kids.

Not all dog people hate cats and not all cat people hate dogs. A fair number of people (me, for example) like both types of animals.

Menagerie
 

I have a cat and two dogs. My BF is not a lawyer. I would never date a guy who did not like dogs. And I believe that posting styles are as likely to feign or cover craziness as they are to reflect it.

These statements are relevant to today's discussion, but to anybody who has been paying attention, it is also quite obviously a cover up for the fact that once again, I quoted myself, rather than edited myself. Why I readily point out my foibles on the chance that anybody missed them, I do not know.

New Poll
 

Alright, all this speed trap discussion has caused me to think about running from the cops. The most common, and most successful kind, I think, has to be just taking off once you see that a cop has turned on his lights and is turning around or pulling out to come after you. This kind of evading seems most common on the freeway, when you might already be doing 90. The cop in question has to pull out, maybe wait for traffic, and catch up to well above your speed to make up for all the lost time. This might be enough time to make it to the next exit/turn-off/rest stop/etc., but it might not. Or they might be working in teams.

I think I've done it, but I was already going 95 or so, never saw the cop turn on his lights, just pull out, and didn't see him fly by with lights and siren going when I pulled into an exit and then immediately into a strip mall when about a mile down the road. I also didn't increase speed that much.

So, ever evaded the cops?

Transgendered
 

That was very well put.

Cops
 

Why evade the cop when you can cry your way out of the ticket?

Cat Freaks
 

Um, we have a dog, and two cats. Are we in serious trouble?

(OK, we also have three snakes, a rabbit, two rats, fish, two reptiles, (maybe three, depending on what that noise was that I heard last night by the oven), two birds, a large walking stick, a praying mantis, turtles, (haven't counted), about 4000 tadpoles and frogs, a salamander, assorted gerbils and hamsters, and this weird toad with big, sharp teeth. Maybe the "are we in trouble" question is superfluous.)

Menagerie
 

You would date a guy who hated cats???????

New Poll
 

Every stinking day of my life.

Menagerie
 

New Poll
 

Only when playing kinky sex games, and it was just one cop.


Ahhh the memories.

Headlights and speed traps
 

Not to mention impossible.

Transgendered (and more catsup)
 

Not while watching television.