And Naps!
Saw (possibly a rerun) Bill Clinton on the Daily Show Monday. A digression in the conversation about what's changed about Congress in recent decades. In a phrase: sleep deprivation. With the ability to commute by plane, and the need to be constantly fund-raising, very few people on Capitol Hill are getting a decent night's sleep and getting re-elected. Therefore our congresspeople are more irritable and thinking less clearly.

Makes as much sense as anything else.

Fortunately, all is not lost, as a watching of Escape from New York demonstates. Things could be worse. We still have New York. And we haven't elected any bald presidents. Now, I haven't seen Escape from LA recently, but it's hard for me to imagine how that can be the "sillier" of the two movies.

Thoughts on a recent issue of Newsweek (I am not up to date. There have been finals): That Mike Huckabee sure is charismatic; too bad he doesn't believe in science.