Kate Moss

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

-- Kate Moss

It's a classic, but I cannot recall if I ever got this down for my permanent record. I'd rather repeat it than risk losing it.

Pop

Pop seems to be doing an all-day clothes-washing marathon today. He is kind of ruining my sleepy Sunday. It doesn't look like I will be able to even attempt a nap this afternoon, and I could really use a good half-hour doze.

Dowding Trump

“Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can’t get beautiful models.”

-- Donald Trump

Maureen Dowd writes about the Trump candidacy. I am tempted to keep the whole thing; there are a lot of good parts to it. With respect to Trump's sexism, I like how she hits back at Fox.

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There was something amusing about Fox News, which is a daily Miss Universe pageant, chockablock with glossy beauties as anchors, reporters and even “experts,” giving The Donald a hard time about focusing on women’s looks.

-- Maureen Dowd

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And then she hit a high note with this most insightful take on the problem of trying to select who would be the best president.

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After covering nine presidential races, I have concluded that it is really hard to know who you’re electing — even after attenuated campaigns with an absurd amount of exposure for candidates.

That’s because you can’t foresee what crises will crop up, or what gremlins of insecurity and perversity the White House will inevitably elicit in presidential psyches.

You can have a candidate like W., after sincerely telling us he will have a “humble” foreign policy, proceed to stumble jejunely into decades-long wars in the Middle East. You can have a charming newcomer like Barack Obama, ascending like a political Pegasus, who loses altitude because it turns out he disdains politics.

-- Maureen Dowd

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The thing about Trump, though, he makes it clear from the beginning that he would be among the worst. There is minimal potential there for strong statesmanship. He is too much in love with himself to have much room in his heart for any real affection for his country and compatriots, to humanity at large, to the future.

[Source: Marueen Dowd at The New York Times]

Pop's Dreams

Pop has been having dreams about his childhood home in Shiner. If we were characters in a novel or in a movie, this would not be a good sign. It would mean that he is going to die very soon. Naturally, he loves these dreams. He says that he sees the old home and its garage so clearly.

I cannot help thinking, "Hang on, Pop! I really would love another few years, at least."