The artist Gil Elvgren created most of the cheesecake images I use on this blog. I started using his images of cowgirls first, but then I found some seasonal, non-cowgirl images that I use when appropriate. I think they’re sexy but kind of sweet and nostalgic, too, but YMMV.

I suspect that the possibility of a Romney win (momentum, etc) is a creation of the Republican party (along with all their other fictions) and the media, which wants a good story and a race and wants us watching the news for the latest on polls, etc. Like Indyanna, I also spend a bit too much time on polls. I just don’t know if Romney is going to be able to win Virginia, where he has dropped to a .7 lead after the so-called surge. Unless there is a huge change of heart on Romney in the next few days, I just don’t see it. What I don’t know is if the storm will affect PA, OH, MN or any of the swing states enough to possibly alter the election. And there’s always those OH voting machines.

Don’t get me going on filibusters! Darn freebooters. Piratas. William Walker is their poster boy.

Good analysis on “moderation” and mystery part. My new-old rule on fillibusters would be that you can go on as long as you like, but you actually have to be there in person, reading out the last year’s editorial debates from Wikipaedia.

Never in a million years will he (or any ex-president) be as productive as Jimmy Carter. Obama consistently does as little as possible. To me his ‘isolated’ style is as much work-avoidance as anything else. He’s not lazy: I’m not invoking a stereotype of the black male loafer. He just doesn’t see the point of doing extra work and he defines extra as unrelated to his individual, nonpolitical, self-focused goals. Just more of his apathy. He will do enough to win the Electoral College votes he needs.