Rudyard Kipling likes balls

I was greeted yesterday with « Do you work at Trader Joe's? » and while I sit here, wreaking the Lord's vengeance on that little lady, I have time to reflect on gossip.

The rumor is out: Purse is engaged to be married to.. a Canadian. Where is your nationalistic pride, Purse? What of the ethnic impurity? Will you spawn and allow your half-breed progeny to gambol across the tundra, sweating to the oldiest from coast to coast, studying geography so they can one day hunt down the elusive and infamous Brunswick dugong? Woe to all of us for not letting you visit Kashmir.