Flutterby™! : Ashcroft Free Zone

Nathan's cat Bandit is helping us to keep this an Ashcroft-Free zone. In a note that Tom turned me on to, according to Andrew Tobias:

Shortly after becoming Attorney General, John Ashcroft was headed abroad. An advance team showed up at the American embassy in the Hague to check out the digs, saw cats in residence, and got nervous. They were worried there might be a calico cat. No, they were told, no calicos. Visible relief. Their boss, they explained, believes calico cats are signs of the devil. (The advance team also spied a statue of a naked woman in the courtyard and discussed the possibility of its being covered for the visit, though that request was not ultimately made.)