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This week’s featured pets are Blake, a two year old female tabby cat, and Dimitri, a three year old male Plott Hound Cross. They’re different in just about every way, except for a couple of commonalities–either would make a great pet, AND they want to find their forever homes before Christmas.

Get ready to celebrate the season with an unforgettable Holiday Music Series at Quinta Mazatlán in December.

Recently I got an email from a friend of mine who lives and breathes politics. History, too, as a matter of fact. Guy’s well read, about my age. To say that the current state of America is driving him crazy would be an understatement. Here’s part of his email, the opening part, which quotes one of the greatest and wittiest of all-time American newspaper columnists, H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956): 'All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man (or woman) who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable...' Sad to say, there are many people today who feel we’re headed the same way: our economy and culture in meltdown mode. Wall Street and the producers of pop culture and the politicians in D.C. would probably disagree --- “We’re doing fine, Wendorf, just shut up with your negativity.”