hmm.. pretty damn good reason for maintaining distance -- if you have correctly assessed the parties you were flung into contact with, surmised just how viciously they will use you for dog-meat to save egos. Make good hedge fund salesmen - that lot.

So she remains pretty-Bad News for anything I'd defend, is demonstrably ignorant and shallow across a vast range of topics, (but at least not psych-stupid.) Alas, the Certainty/stubbornness + hubris still makes her dangerous in any activity, anywhere. Monomaniacs are Like that.

Maybe she should try for a record, back home: run the Iditarod in a bikini.
And save the world. Posthumously.


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[PS] and then there's this summation:
http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=32452

"Stupid is the new hot"
with a few comments, like -

"Paris Hilton (even if she's allegedly faking it)

Marilyn Monroe (nope, not taking that one back, even if she were faking it)

Jayne Mansfield

Bridgit Bardot (regardless her midlife awakening)

Jessica Simpson

Jean Harlow (she was smart but Played stupid on Purpose)

Carole Lombard (see Jean Harlow)

Judy Holliday (see Jean Harlow)

Nope, it's not the new hot. It's just Conservatism La Vida Nueva + recycling."

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Same author in related vein --
http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=32993

Essay on another True Believer and his quotes, a decent rant on Muricans' fearful flight --> The Medieval + a tentative manifesto for dealing with these and future Fundies: each one planning to turn the Middle-West into the Middle-East w/crucifixes.

Palin: maybe her persona IS the Perfect Storm:
A now and forever-recognizable [Effigy] of precisely that psyche-model which you would put nowhere Near the levers of power, except Over your Dead Body
(before thousands of other bodies are placed in jeopardy, on a caprice-from-Gawd -- with a giggle very-like the Decider's.)


And we're now so Fucked - it probably will. be. a close-squeak. In 2008, not 1808.