Tyra Banks weighed in on The Future and it’s all coming up a la carte plastic surgery.

Brush the cat hair off your most celebratory cardigan and slice yourself some night cheese, because being a cat lady is now très chic. Or at least it's a sign of independence and joie de vivre, rather than sad resignation to a life alone. Progress!

Snowflakes: you are all singular, special individuals, but you, collectively, fall into some pretty predictable data patterns when it comes to political affiliation.

Kate Benjamin has one of the best jobs in the world. What is it, you ask? Well, she just writes about and make things for cats all day. Her eleven cats.

Like most fundamentalist lobby groups intent on forcing their old-timey views upon a population of people who are minding their own business, the Australian Christian Lobby is the worst. When they're not attempting to silence ad campaigns meant to educate the public about HIV prevention, they're eroding the rights of…

Taylorsville, Kentucky contains 1,800 residents, a small population of very nervous mice, and an overpopulation of stray cats convening in every possible nook and cranny. According to the town's CAT CROSSING sign, the cats also wear shoes.

Two women from Vermont have been cited for animal cruelty after police discovered that they had been housing 77 cats in two cars. Only two of the cats belonged to the ladies—the rest are in need of homes.

Breaking down the whole women love cats while men prefer dogs stereotype is a new study, which found that women are often closer to their canine companions than men. Should we be surprised?

We'd pretty much watch Julie Klausner read the phone book, so when she's communicating with felines as a Cat Whisperer, it kind of doesn't get any better:

Martin Howard has written a paean to "eccentrics" — the lobster-walking, mole-eating, own-buttcheek-caressing weirdos who, he argues, make the world a better place. Which made us think of our favorite eccentrics — and what eccentricity is in the first place.

Army Specialist Nathan Davis wrote an essay about his cats Commander Frank Sinatra and Sergeant Snog for a Purina contest to debunk myths about multiple cat owners. He won $5,000 and a year's supply of kitty litter. [Washington Post]

Lately, cat ladies have been in the news, prompting legislation, a documentary, and a new inquiry from Slate's "Explainer": "What's the deal with cat ladies?" And why are they always, well, ladies?

"If it feels as if the remarriage odds are bad for a woman in her 50s, they are." So claims the Times piece "In Her 50s, Looking for Love." Clearly, these women haven't seen Cougar Town!

We're extremely sad to report that a player of one of our favorite sports (baseball) who was once a prospect for our favorite team (the NY Mets) and appeared on one of our least-favorite shows (Sex and the City) has been arrested on charges that he beat his girlfriend's cat to death. Gawker kind of sums up our…