Hey -- nothing wrong with reptiles...

Back when Bush choked on a pretzel, the "He's ok now" report said he'd was doing fine and back to his resting heart rate of THIRTY-SEVEN!!?!

And I thought "Thirty-seven is reptilian."

(Ha-ha, or so I thought.)

But when he decides again to spend August in Texas, I have to wonder if there was more truth in that joke than I knew.

I have actually spent August in Texas -- more than once.

The only creatures that might do this out of choice are snakes and lizards.

Hot hot hot lying on a rock then cool cool cool slithering UNDER the rock to get out of the direct sun, lying there in the shade where it's only 110 degrees.

That might explain his inability to blink. Or empathize.

Hmmm.