Moon for My Mother

Sometimes the rat gets thoughtful. Sometimes I get thoughtful. Love to the mother of the rat and me.

Rat Poison

I hear Shermin speaking with a French accent.

Butchered goat heads left outside Hyde Park homes

Shermin’s Cincinnati goat farm.

(For those of you who live too far away from Cincinnati’s Hyde Park neighborhood to understand, please follow this link to our WKRC local news coverage.)

Shermin's Bilingual Flash Cards: More!

 Shermin the Vermin and U.S. Education: "Waiting for Stupid-man."

(Special thanks to Dan Schubarth for this wonderful idea. His prize will be awarded immediately: the newest addition to Shermin's vermin cast is hereby christened "Dan the Squirrel.")

Merry Christmas, Vermin!

Happy Catharsis from two new vermin: a squirrel, and (I believe) a groundhog.

If some nice reader suggested names for them, this rodent team might be back.

And, yes, I said THEY might be back. Yes, the squirrel is dead, but c'mon. It's only pixels on a screen, folks.

Think of the Children

In the very first "Shermin the Vermin" cartoon, I depicted him after attacking a baby. I deeply regret that, and I hope today's cartoon makes up for that insensitivity, which, as I said, I deeply regret.

Shermin's Bilingual Flash Cards: #1

¡Olé!


Shermin's bilingual flash cards. They can't be licked.