Dogging It

Nick Gillespie at Reason has this squib about the content they've got at The New York Times these days. In particular, here's managing editor Jill Abramson going on at length about her dog.

Buddy, our beloved, stone-deaf, feisty-to-the-end West Highland terrier, had expired at 15 in March 2007. My two children, who grew up with him but flew the nest years before his demise, joked that Buddy was my one perfect relationship in life.

But don't worry, the hard news angle is she bought a new canine.

There is the special puppy smell, much like the distinctive scent, better than perfume, of a new baby's head. There is the reflexive urge to smother with kisses.

Nick notes "can I simply suggest that this is why the terrorists hate us?"

Perhaps, but it seems to me this is why the terriers hate us.