FRIDAY CATBLOGGING….That’s it for the day. I’m off in a few minutes to have lunch with ex-Irvinite (and now rising DC wunder-pundit) Ezra Klein, followed by a trip to LAX to pick up my mother from her holiday in the country that apparently invented pretty much everything, including toilet paper. In the meantime, here are your Friday cats.

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