Very cool, if true

I was baffled at the new hire story, until I remembered that it presumably happened in the US, which is one of those few, strange places in the middle-income-and-above world that has no actual national identification system (with photo and biometric information), so that people can prove that they are who they are (and, for instance, that they are citizens)...

Once, I visited a friend whose two cats had had simultaneous litters. When I walked into her sitting-room there were no visible kittens. I got a piece of string, stood in the centre of the room, and began swinging it gently, until after about five minutes, emerging from under and behind assorted pieces of furniture, I had ten kittens....