Since I'm a bit of an asshole with majorly fucked up priorities (surprise!), I often tend to empathize more with animals than humans. Shut up. You know you do it, too. (Like when a horse gets shot in a movie. Why'd they have do that?! Poor little horsie! Why not shoot the lead actor? It's not like anyone cares about him, right? Or when news coverage of natural disasters starts talking about abandoned pets OMG start the motherfucking waterworks, amIright? What? I'm starting to lose you? I started awhile ago? Hmph. Anyways...)

Last year I posted a few comics by Coco Wang that highlighted a few of the tragedies which resulted from China's earthquake in May. Some were outright heartbreaking, though the strips about the Wolong panda reserve are a bit more lighthearted:

Earlier last week I stumbled upon these photos of the rehabbed pandas. One of the captions stated that "to help the pandas recover from trauma caused by the disaster, keepers gave psychological support in the form of games and hugs".

You all know how very much I love my job at the library, but I think it goes without saying that I would start LIGHTING BOOKS ON FIRE if it meant I could take up that gig.

(Really though, I'd only burn the Shopaholic series. No big loss there.)