Saturday Morning with Peggy Noonan's Driveling WSJ Column

Effusive and floribund conservative pundit Peggy Noonan writes a column every Friday for the Wall Street Journal. My cyber bffs, or maybe more like my cyber "cool, hip, older kids from high school who I look up to and sometimes let me hang out with them" friends at Wonkette make sure to ridicule it every week it comes out.

As my brain trudges through Good Ol' Nooner's meanderings, I always wish there were a collection of the most pretentious of her phrases and special SAT word choices. So, now I will keep track.

On The Children Are Watching

~SAT: throngs
~On reflecting on JFK's election: I can't say we stood taller—we were Irish, we already stood tall
~On this election: There is power to be had in the full unleashing of human capital.
~On things children are watching & the effect of: erectile dysfunction ads; They're absorbing and understanding life via this darkness.
~SAT: pragmatic
~On the socializing at Pennsylvania Avenue: In the Oval Office you meet yourself every day. It is going to be very interesting to see Mr. Obama meet himself in this way.
~SAT :demoralized
~On Obama-maniacs: When you think someone's Moses, you expect him to part the seas.
~On how to use hyphens pretentiously: we don't love unneeded drama in our government and among our govern-ors
~On curmudgeons in the GOP: they lost the vote of two-thirds of those aged 18 to 29. They lost a generation! If that continues in coming years, it will be a rolling wave of doom.
~SAT: sterling
~On the loss of her Hollywood crush, Paul Newman and who replaces him in her fantasies now: they want to know you can lead as you ran, capable, Cool Hand Luke.
~SAT: transom (I had to look it up: A horizontal transverse beam or bar in a frame; a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it. Also, a window above a door or other window, built on and commonly hinged to a transom.)
~SAT: jarringly
~On drinking Obama people for breakfast or snack: He hasn't staffed his campaign with fierce gut fighters but benign-seeming smoothies, the best kind of smoothie to be.
~SAT: obstreperous (BTW, recycled from last week's column!)
~On "speaking of jarring", Pegster uses slang: props to Paul Begala
~On Begala's description of Rahm Emanuel: "a cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache."
~On inverting syntax to sound as snooty as possible: have we not noticed?
~On slinging back gimlets while typing up columns: Can Mr. Obama claim a mandate? The answer: a firm no-yes.
~SAT: impeded

Well, that was fun! And it did the trick of waking me up and all that. Yay!

I love to read the column and Wonkette's commentary as my brain wakes up during the first couple hours of work here at the lib.

One more thing: I will also find out how long the column would be if it were a double spaced 12 font college essay. This week's is four FULL pages long.

This has been Saturday Morning with Peggy Noonan's Column. Over and out!