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Roman creativity when it came to punishing those who murdered their fathers astounds me.

If found guilty of parricide (killing your father) in ancient Rome, you’d be sewn into a leather sack with a viper, a dog, a monkey, and a rooster then flung into a body of water to drown.  This form of punishment was known as poena cullei (from the Latin ‘punishment of the sack’). Poena cullei was…

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Cat Heaven snuck up on me and made me cry.

If you’re a cat lover or a book lover or a person who suffers from an ongoing existential crisis or simply a human being, Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant is a book that you will love as you possibly weep. My daughter, Clara, is named after a character in The Van Gogh Café – also…

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Bad news for cats and dogs and goldfish everywhere

Eternal Earth Bound Pets, the company of atheists who sought to care for pets left behind on Earth following the Rapture, has gone out of business due to a lack of clients. Apparently the true believers have no qualms about leaving their pets behind to starve when they join Jesus. Either that or they have…

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