Goodbye, Sarah. Good riddance to the politician Sarah Palin, I hope.
Palin has been busy tweeting, though, and William Shatner gave an interpretive reading on Conan O’Brien’s show:
Yes, it’s true. Sarah Palin resigned today. Although the collective political IQ in America just went up about fifty points, the Alaskan moose just became a little bit more endangered.
Here’s PZ’s take (presumably with apologies to Monty Python & The Holy Grail):
Brave Dame Sarah ran away.
(”No!”)
Bravely ran away away.
(”I didn’t!”)
When danger reared it’s ugly shead,
She bravely turned her tail and fled.
(”no!”)
Yes, brave Dame Sarah turned about
(”I didn’t!”)
And gallantly she chickened out.Bravely taking (”I never did!”) to her feet,
She beat a very brave retreat.
(”all lies!”)
Bravest of the braaaave, Dame Sarah!
(”I never!”)
Yeah, I LOL’d.
We’ll miss ya Sair … you betcha.
Andrew Sullivan offers some shocking statistics to back up the claim that Alaska is not a place that values education for its children. And nothing like the anti-education governor to serve as the spokesperson for this anti-education:
Her eldest son has a history of vandalism and was given a GED on the way to Iraq; her [...]
What else didn’t Sarah Palin know? It’s starting to leak out of the McCain camp now. Check out this site and Bill O’Reilly video. It shows that Sarah Palin was abhorrently uninformed about basic matters affecting national security and that John McCain was trying to commit a fraud on the American people by nonetheless [...]
A clip from last night’s show:
Obama employs a sharp sword in the final week.
Palin argues that Obama is trying to steal your freedom by stealing your money. He’s essentially a Communist, and he wants to give your money to someone else, like they do in some other countries where people aren’t free. Or so the argument goes (Huffington Post interprets Palin’s rant similarly).
I think [...]
I am not sure what is more troubling - Palin dodging this question, or doing it sitting right next to John McCain. Anyone else think they see the realization that his campaign is hurtling over the bridge to nowhere flash over his face? Perhaps I am imagining things.
This is appalling. Blowing up abortion clinics does [...]
Andrew Sullivan talks things over with reporter Marc Ambinder.
The RNC has presented Sarah Palin with more than $150,000 worth of clothes and make-overs.
Palin received more valuable clothes in one month than the average American household spends on clothes in 80 years. A Democrat put it in even blunter terms: her clothes were the cost of health care for 15 or so people.
You [...]
Jon Stewart’s team explores Wasilla:
Impressive musicianship by Henry Hey, the pianist for Rudder.
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Today’s news is that Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama. Rather than being an unusual event, Powell’s endorsement of Obama is simply the continuation of a trend: Conservatives endorsing Barack Obama.
George Will wrote; “Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. [...]
