White Settlement council member Elzie Clements called for a vote and the resolution passed 2-1 to remove Browser, a rescued shelter cat, from the town’s public library and presumably from his role as mascot and PR focus.
The mayor says its because the council a) doesn’t like cats and b) is taking misguided revenge on behalf of a city worker who wasn’t permitted to bring a dog to work at city hall.[
I figured this would be [del]better[/del] more fun in the Pit since it’s about cats and mean people.
ETA: And because it’s the Pit: Get over yourself, bitch. Your dog isn’t welcome everywhere. You aren’t welcome everywhere, I’m sure. But that cat has a home and now you want to take it away because… well, because you’re a bitch, Elzie Clements. The other person who voted with her: you’re an asshole, too; don’t think I forgot you were there.
Time for a children’s art day at the library, suggested topic: the mean people who hate cats. Followed by an open mic poetry reading, suggested topic: Assholes named Elzie.
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The racial makeup of the city was 89.83% White, 0.05% African American, 0.58% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 4.51% from other races, and 3.49% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.60% of the population
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It must suck to be the black guy in White Settlement.
I’m more familiar with White Settlement than I wish I were. That ditzy nurse girlfriend of mine way back when lived there for a spell, and she tried hard to get me to move there from Albuquerque. I refused to do so but did spend some time there. Like you, I speculated it was named after someone with the surname White but was not surprised when I learned otherwise.
I recently had reason, in a much more serious context, to comment on the fact that terrible things can happen in isolated towns, where the local petty powers can easily hide them. This issue is particularly petty, though I’m very much on Browser’s side. The baldly stated desire for secrecy, however, is the most disturbing part. It’s the complaint of a man who is well accustomed to the freedom to act badly with impunity.
We’ve had our reference to one mystery-solving team; I’ll add another:
Holmes’s expressed view of cities may be unduly optimistic, but he’s got a point about isolated places. One of the better points of the internet is that it’s undermining that isolation. It’s no wonder the little tin gods hate it.
