HOW YOUR CAT is making you crazy. “Toxoplasma might even kill as many people as malaria, or at least a million people a year. . . . My guess is that there are scads more examples of this going on in mammals, with parasites we’ve never even heard of.”

Tom Maguire says this is putting cat-blogging in a harsh new light. But I think my childhood litterbox duties explain why I am fearless and irresistible to women. . . .

UPDATE: Skepticism.