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Just made the top listing on Buzzfeed. Not too bad.

But it still doesn’t beat this one, my all-time favorite:

By fun, though, I mean pretty disgusting, if it turns out to be true. From Andrew Sullivan’s blog on The Atlantic’s website:

While I’m at it, does anyone actually believe that Palin’s name for the child of miraculous provenance was found by her deep knowledge of ancient Norse as she claims in her magical-realism novel, “Going Rogue”? I mean, seriously. She knows about as much ancient Norse as she does English grammar. It’s as credible as the idea that she gave a speech while having contractions, several hours after going into labor, as she claims in her novel. It’s as credible as her amazing journey in labor with a special needs child on a plane where the flight attendants, according to the Anchorage Daily News, did not even notice she was pregnant. It’s as credible as any number of indisputable self-serving, unbalanced lies that she has told in the public record for years.

The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g.

As you may or may not heard by now, former VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is in Washington State this weekend visiting family during the Thanksgiving break.

During that break, it was announced that she would participate in a 5k run in Kennewick. However, Palin ditched the ending of the race to avoid the gathering crowd (a rather odd move considering she’s been traveling around the country promoting her new book Going Rogue).

Now while I understand that most national figures back out of committments from time to time, someone who, like Palin, has garnered a much-deserved reputation for bailing on events, this was just an idiotic move. If she had no intention of finishing the race, or was just using the start of the race as a photo-op, then why not have people in place before the start of the event saying exactly that to the press, so they don’t take off on a story they clearly seem to enjoy telling.

It is exactly this level of amateurish handling of her media events that have reinforced the impression among the public that this is someone who is clearly not ready for prime time, let alone ready for any major public office. It’s a lesson you’d think she would have learned by now.

Related articles

• Palin to run in Red Cross Turkey Trot at Kennewick (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Palin: It’s The Money, Stupid (alan.com)
• Video: Angry Mob of Palin Fans Shout Insults at Palin (firedoglake.com)
• What It Still Says About McCain (talkingpointsmemo.com)
• Why Sarah Palin is unlikely to be the future of the Republican Party. (slate.com)

“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”

I love meat. I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals—right next to the mashed potatoes.

-Sarah Palin (Moron-AK)