"[D]oubling down on the bland, middle-aged white guy quotient on the Republican ticket could be a major mistake."

Writes Chris Cilizza , giving 3 reasons why Rob Portman is the wrong VP choice for Romney. One of the reasons is "Boring": Portman...

"[T]he only thing preventing these giant swamp rats from destroying all of Louisiana are our very own Rat B*stards and their crafty hunting tricks...."

It's the new reality show — "Rat Bastards" — with "larger-than-life characters in extreme situations, facing down these ...

Gallery-goers eat rats at the art show "Tomorrow We Will Feast Again on What We Catch."

And the NYT gives the show 2-pages of glowing description (and warnings that — ooh! — you may be disgusted). Twenty people, mostly friends...

Laughing rats.

Via James Taranto, who tweaks the scientists as having "lonely lives" (since they are resorting to tickling rats). But I think it...

Madison needs to deal with its vermin - the geese.

At the Isthmus, Bill Lueders — remember him from last week ? — seems disturbed by the proposal to kill the geese that are ruining our beauti...

A 55 square foot apartment. £43,000.

"In Rome, people now live like rats." Ah! But it's the Piazza di Sant' Ignazio. Look! You'll be such a lucky rat.

"Brooklyn is now overrun with rats and opossums."

"A few years ago, officials in Brooklyn, New York came up with a seemingly brilliant idea to deal with the rat-infestation problem in t...

"In his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Barack Obama almost got upstaged by a rat."

"But he didn't even seem to notice. Assuming that's what it was, scurrying in front of his podium Thursday in a sun-drenched Ro...

"The hospital now desperately needs volunteers to help with some of the orphans."

After Tropical Storm Fay, here is a plea for volunteers to care for hundreds of rescued baby... squirrels ! You'll have to provide them...

Going to the dump to shoot rats.

= Megan McArdle's "weirdest date."

"But in a battle between a rat and a squirrel, my money is going to be on the rat."

Darrin Lunde, museum mammalogy maven, opines , in response to musings about the rodents that share the ecosystem that is Central Park. Mr. L...

"Giant rats roam free!"

A PR nightmare for Taco Bell. I love the person-on-the-street interviews: "I won't eat here again." Good call!

"Well, there goes my plans for 'Rats in the Operating Room.'"

Says Adam , commenting on the slack performance of "Snakes on a Plane" at the box office this past weekend. And that stirred up an...

"Imagine the most evil supervillain and the nicest, sweetest cartoon animal."

I hate to think so much of our personality lies at the genetic level, but let's look at the evidence about nonhuman animals: In one co...

"Dead people and live ones mix with bugs and rats in the green, fetid water and the August heat."

The great American city we have loved, New Orleans " is gone : buried beneath the sea, fouled by the waters its levees, canals, and pum...

Wild animals in the city: 3 things.

The Capital Times reports this discovery in Milwaukee: More than 70 ducks in a basement pen were only part of the menagerie authorities fou...

Hey! I became an adorable little rodent! Only yesterday, I was merely a flappy bird! That's in The Truth Laid Bear ecosystem , as you p...