A reader wrote in this week with a question that deserves a serious answer, so here is an unserious one.
The old guard prefers a retainer paid in treats. The new guard prefers whatever is on the other side of the door.
The Short Version, Told Slowly
If you take only one thing from this, take this: an objection sustained by loud meowing is not a bug. It is the product.
Naturally there was a committee. Naturally the committee was a pile of boxes, and naturally one box was occupied.
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