To everyone out there who believes that there are no more miracles, that our best days are behind us and the time we've got left will be spent in an agonizing and ultimately futile struggle to maintain our basic human dignity, I would say, Yes, you are absolutely correct. But here is a video about a cat who adopted a baby squirrel, which learned how to purr. It should help you forget your grim and hopeless future for a little bit.

You know what helps to stop think about the oil spill for two minutes? (The "top-kill" procedure being attempted today-plugging the hole with mud and cement-is being given a 50/50 chance of working, and may make the leak worse if it fails. So yes, please, any diversion.) Watching a squirrel run around the field during a major league baseball game. It's also comforting to know you can count on the announcers to make the very same joke every time something like this happens.