I peered into the chink and saw a bee. Very strange, I thought, a single bee sitting in a chink in the wall in the middle of winter. Where’s your hive bee? I asked it. Didn’t you make it back before the snows hit? You’re here for the duration now anyway. He wasn’t moving…
Month: May 2025
The One Evil Animal
You might have heard a lot about how animals behave. You have probably heard something along the lines of the following: animals are neither good nor bad; they simply are. When a fox kills a chicken, we cannot consider this immoral. The fox has no sense of good or bad. It just acts as nature…
The Domestication of Humans By Cats
The domestication of humans by cats was a succinct affair, preserved in the transcript of the conversation between some cats in a suburb of Mesopotamia and the first human to be domesticated by them. As follows: CAT: Hey, Flatface. HUMAN: Who, me? CAT: Yeah, you, Flatface. HUMAN: Yes? CAT: We’re moving in. HUMAN: What do…