Yo-Yo Sleep

It was all I could do to get out of bed by eight. I needed the hour. Another rough night. I wonder if I am getting more like Pop in not being able to sleep before three in the fricking morning. With me, it has been looking like a yo-yo kind of thing: one bad night, and then a good night of making up for the deficit, but then another bad night, and on and on. This has been going on for a couple of weeks.

Rush Limbaugh

The conservative radio host pointed to an Italian study which found that the average male penis was 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago. Researchers cited weight gain around the waist, smoking, stress and environmental pollutants as factors.

But Limbaugh wasn’t buying that explanation.

“I think it’s feminism,” he declared. “If it’s tied to the last 50 years — the average size of [a male's] member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years — it has to be the feminazis, the chickification and everything else.”

-- David Edwards at The Raw Story

Well, it probably is objectively true that penises are not as much fun as they used to be, now that women have a lot more veto power.

Pics of the Day

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the floors

Did a little work on the floors, some vacuuming and even some swipe-mopping. I have been terrible about letting them go. With the cats outside practically all day now, it is harder to make excuses to keep puttig it off.

David Brooks's Ayn Rand Moment

I guess we’re all supposed to be talking about how to build the middle class these days and look askance at the top 1 percent. But would you mind if I interrupted this cultural moment to point out that capitalism is an inherently elitist enterprise?

Prosperity is often driven by small enclaves of extraordinary individuals that build new industries and amass large fortunes. These driven, manic individuals are frequently unpleasant to be around. But, if your country is not attracting and nurturing them, you’re cooked.

-- David Brooks at The New York Times

A moment of silence, please, for this Ayn Rand moment! I think Mr. Brooks is feeling a little defensive, since the Republican establishment has really fallen on his head for jumping on the bandwagon that mocked and excoriated Romney for his contempt for the bottom half of America. Brooks is not being crazy, of course, as individuals can and do make a big difference. People really are not all equal when it comes to our intellectual, emotional, physical capacities. I just don't know if we really need to support their God complex.

Laid Back Sammy

I love seeing Sammy stretched out on the lounge chair on the patio, obviously feeling deeply secure, well-fed, and perfectly content, like a very lucky cat.

rough little balls of dirt

I reach down to pet Coco and I can feel the rough little balls of dirt in her coat. One of the disadvantages of leaving then outside. I've also been thiking that we should squirt them for fleas, but that is a nice little bill and I don't know if I am going to be able to work up my nerve to ask Pop, unless the cats start scratching and clawing themselves like crazy.

The Boca Moment

For those who may have been a bit wigged out by the David Brooks post, we happily have the Paul Krugman corrective. He takes on the big news of Romney's candid, impolitic comments, and lays out the case for how this is an attitude that is now endemic to the Republican Party, and not just toward supposed moochers but to the working class and the poor as a whole. They really don't like us! Okay, this is hardly a revelation, but it has never been exposed so nakedly before.

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Good nap, though!

I thought I heard country music streaming from the other side of the house, figuring Pop managed to sneak back home in the middle of my nap. But, no, I was hearing things. Good nap, though!

Howard Stern

“Bain… His whole background at Bain is so deplorable, I’m not sure that he shouldn’t be in jail.”

-- Howard Stern

The man is still cool after all these years.

a new journal style

I killed the better part of my afternoon looking for a new journal style for my LJ. I wanted a darker background to show off the pictures, but I couldn't find anything I want to keep. Like anyone looks at the damn thing! I have the darker background for my personal blog - what more do I need? Though, I really wish that I could have that hour and a half back (not to mention my twenties).

More from Peggy Noonan

"This week I called [the Romney campaign] incompetent, but only because I was being polite. I really meant "rolling calamity." A lot of people weighed in, in I suppose expected ways: "Glad you said this," "Mad you said this." But, some surprises. No one that I know of defended the campaign or argued "you're missing some of its quiet excellence."

-- Peggy Noonan