like tax cuts, generally neutral. It's a perception game (people believe you're recovering, voilà, recovery; people believe you're sinking, voilà, you sink). The rest is noise.

isn't going to hurt Palin, my friend. Unlike many, I think the bad news is going to continue. Not outright catastrophe, perhaps. But a few years of serious stagnation will be like chains on Obama's ankles in 2012. Palin, on the other hand, will free, white and 21--and posing in the nude.

Sarah Palin won election promising clean, above-board government. All she actually did was grandstand, pursue personal vendettas, and chase her own glory. As far as Alaska goes, good riddance. Unfortunately, as I've explained elsewhere, it's a brilliant move in furtherance of the only cause Sarah Palin really believes in--the greater glory of Sarah Palin.

I'll explain that it was another allusion to Eva Peron. Also a joke.

I'm truly sorry for what you're going through now, JanZ. But Fritz's comment had nothing to do with you or your family, nor was he aiming it toward people with cancer in general. While I understand your sensitivity, for you to take it personally is rather a stretch.

JanZ wrote the following post at 07/03/2009 6:18 PM: You are a piece of shit to wish cancer on anyone, fuck you.

I agree that Fritz is a piece of shit, Jan; but I think in this instance he was going for hyperbole. I don't think he actually meant it.

Jack

Whyever would you fly Southwest? I have done that exactly twice in my life. The nightmare at Midway is what I callled my second (and last flight) on that airline.

but I'm a know-nothing, non-power-weilding, non-entity so I just want to say she makes me want to puke. I wish her all the worst nightmares in the press and in her public life.

I hope she stays fabulously healthy and lives a long, long time. I just hope she is miserable. Forever. I hope the press won't ever stop talking about her Fuck-Me-Red-Heels and her whiny voice, and her clueless nature. If that inspires people to vote for her because they are angry and feel sorry for her (or have a hard on) then fine.

One thing I learned in 2008 is that a smart, savvy political organization can find 50 million people who think, and vote, differently.

Crazy, because very few people inspire these kinds of feelings in me. She does.

She is hiking the Wasilla Trail. Seriously, she is probably finished according to the following.

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell reports:

"Talking to people who are very close to Sarah Palin, I have been told that she has told her supporters that she is out of politics, period. She is fed up with politics. She doesn’t like her life. She feels like she has to raise her family. She’s sick of the commute from Wasilla to the capital and she really does not want to run for higher office. This is not the case where she is stepping down in order to figure the way for a presidential run. In fact, she has told some of her biggest backers in the national Republican Party that they are free to choose other candidates for 2012."

"She doesn't like her life"? What did she get caught up in this time? When will the other shoe drop. I've never thought she had appeal beyond NASCAR dads anyway. And it wasn't her politics that they were looking at anyway.

Ended up in Argentina?

you can believe in. All the world is a stage, you know.

OK, so that only happened once in my lifetime. A state senator was gunned down by his election opponent. Byron (Low-Tax) Looper, a legal name-change, served as his own attorney, and is predictably stewing in the hoosegow.

I'm sure the Gov's opponents keep filing these things out of their love of clean government, though. Those noble souls.

She always starts out with "I've been talking all day with people very close to _______". Doesn't usually pan out. I'd wait for an actual source.

You must be frumpy.

Jack

And knowing that you feel that way, how does that make you feel about yourself?