The man who never sleeps ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

An ancient animated 'Sesame Street' sketch seems to have foretold what attempts at sleep would be like years later:



That old segment was prophetic.

The only major difference between that sketch and real life in recent years is that the hard-working man on 'Sesame Street' was woken up by animal sounds, while in real life we are woken up by the din of futility and political degeneration.

Being awoken in the middle of the night by a harassing phone call though is dead on - especially since the de facto legalization of phone harassment in Kentucky.

This clip should have showed the man using call trace, logging on to Switchboard to get the caller's street address, and driving down to their house to clean their clock.

The man's voice sounds vaguely like the bald, blue Muppet who frequently patronizes Grover's restaurant and complains about missing letters in his alphabet soup.

"Sleep. At last." That's a statement that is almost never true in this household.