Is this a Glamour Shot photo? She looks more life like in this picture.

I can see her soul shining through.

Good afternoon, Weaseldog.

As far as I'm concerned, Sarah Palin is an excellent subject for honing new Photoshop skills. Right now, I'm working with grunge brushes, and it seems like Palin's face practically guides my work. It's pretty weird.

Now, for all the Sarah fans in the reading audience, allow me to offer a reprisal of my 2008 campaign video, "Vote Republican":



Stay tuned for more fun with Sarah in the coming months and years.

This is a long but interesting article on the Disasta from Alaska:

It Came from Wasilla

Whatever her political future, the emergence of Sarah Palin raises questions that will not soon go away. What does it say about the nature of modern American politics that a public official who often seems proud of what she does not know is not only accepted but applauded? What does her prominence say about the importance of having (or lacking) a record of achievement in public life? Why did so many skilled veterans of the Republican Party—long regarded as the more adroit team in presidential politics—keep loyally working for her election even after they privately realized she was casual about the truth and totally unfit for the vice-presidency? Perhaps most painful, how could John McCain, one of the cagiest survivors in contemporary politics—with a fine appreciation of life’s injustices and absurdities, a love for the sweep of history, and an overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor—ever have picked a person whose utter shortage of qualification for her proposed job all but disqualified him for his?

"Perhaps most painful, how could John McCain, one of the cagiest survivors in contemporary politics—with a fine appreciation of life’s injustices and absurdities, a love for the sweep of history, and an overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor—ever have picked a person whose utter shortage of qualification for her proposed job all but disqualified him for his?"

Recursive absurdity is a form of comedy that writes itself.

While Sarah Palin is clearly unfit for the job, McCain has a history of betraying his own words and his self professed integrity. He's long been a mean spirited crook that supports torture, so long as it's not done to him. He and Palin were made for each other.

The author is as ignorant of McCain's hypocrisy as the Palin supporters are of hers.

What's overdeveloped in McCain, in my opinion, is his sense of entitlement -- first, in his pre-Vietnam Navy career (based on his family legacy), and subsequently based on his legitimate heroism as a POW. He seems to be more than a bit of an opportunist; after finding out the hard way that being a "maverick" in the Bush-dominated GOP didn't pay off, he reversed course totally and abjectly in 2008, to his everlasting shame. And his quick-draw selection of Palin as VP candidate was a political error of the first magnitude.