05 September 2008 ~ 5 Comments

She loves integrity, frugality, and moose stew.

Mother. Moosehunter. Maverick.
Mayor. Governor. Maverick.
Those were the introductory words of last night’s biographical video of Sarah Palin, spoken with grave admiration by a Morgan Freeman impersonator as a synthesized version of the theme for the television show Dallas played in the background.
But while I snorted incredulously and seriously started to expect Ashton Kutcher to wander on [...]

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04 September 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Drill, baby, drill? For real?

That was stunning, all right. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I feel stunned.
First, there was endless line of otherwise fairly intelligent Republican pundits who set aside their personal integrity in order to throw themselves on (or perhaps in front of) the Palin bandwagon. Even Rudy Giuliani championed her candidacy, though surely a [...]

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03 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Sarah who? From WHERE?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. WHOA. McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for his vice-presidential running mate has thrown me for a loop. And that says a lot, considering these are Republicans we are talking about. I thought I had seen it all when Bush was reelected.
Let me see if I can get this straight.
She was [...]

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