Slate held a "write like Palin" contest. They thought this was insulting:
"Reaching the peak of Igikpak, that majestic mount, feeling the smooth Alaskan wind rustle against my cheeks, watching over this vast yet tender land that epitomized so much of America's resplendent pulchritude, and slowly squeezing the trigger" [...]
preventing him, [...]
He is being admitted this morning. That's all I can tell you right now, he asked me to let you all know."The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty-for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks," [...]
I'm sick. I had to go to the ER yesterday. I'm convinced that politics made me sick to my stomach. I won't go into details. As my mother used to say: "Save the organ recitals for church."' [...] One source of strength for the scientific side, in the centuries-long clash of scientific and theistic worldviews, has always been that science didn't involve anything supernatural or untestable. But string theorists have been going around for decades talking about an 11-dimensional universe where we can' [...]
From my Fifties folder. The Fifties were so innocent. Eartha Kitt would be skinned alive by PETA if she wore that coat nowadays. And can you imagine touting lard as a chic health food? As for devil girls and lesbian satans...
Of course it really should be called "Close Encounters of the Hillbilly Kind" but metrosexuals don't know the difference between Rednecks and Hillbillies. Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo.
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[...] "Yours is the first official state visit of my presidency, its fitting that you and India be so recognised," 48-year-old Obama told [...]
(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by [...]
Senator Reid tonight:
Today we vote whether to even discuss one of the greatest issues of our generation - indeed, one of the greatest issues this body has ever face: whether this nation will finally guarantee its people the right to live free from the fear of illness and [...]
Iraq according to a redneck? From an email to K-Lo at The Corner:I predict that Palin will come to Arizona next summer to campaign for McCain, will make an impassioned case for him, and will help him win. She will thereby repay McCain for his confidence in picking her last year, help keep McCain [...]
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On the rusted, dented, tilted bumper right beside the Obama and anti-war stickers was this:In general, Americans tend to receive more new treatments and pay more for them — a fact that is usually regarded as a fault of the American system. That interpretation, if not entirely wrong, is at [...]
Al Gore on Conan O'Brien's show the other day:
Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …
SOS - therefore no posts. [...] 
He writes:Introductory posts are never terribly enthralling, so I’ll try to keep this brief. To anyone who followed my blogging at The Atlantic, thanks for showing up again. [...] 
I've still got another 50 or so songs by Day. Should I bother to post them? There doesn't seem to be much interest. [...] 
Also from Boortz:
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...and a couple of other cute animal pics for Black Friday.
My Dream is Yours
"But Bush stole the election."
Remind Me
Faded Summer Love
I'm Confessin'
When I Fall In Love
