Dog Perspiration

If dogs perspire through their tongues, why do they have armpits?

———- from Lane Powell of Seattle, WA

For the same reason men have nipples and women mustaches. It’s actually whatphysiologists call “illogical redundancy,” which is actually a philosophicalnotion that explains the presence of absurdity in nature or on the internet.It assumes an all-knowing and impish creator who has too much time on his/herhands and not enought to do. So they keep setting up little living tableausthat are the equivalent of those old “what’s wrong with this picture”exercise. It keeps us on our toes, and vaguely conscious that somebody’s outthere in charge…sort of .