If there’s a sign that Simpsons has become irrelevant, it’s this.  You’d have thought it was inevitable that Fox the network and Fox the news mall-kiosk would have collided.  I guess most politicians are smart enough to know that being satirized is like being approached by a brown bear.  Just lay back quietly and it’ll [...]

David Brooks doesn’t think we should try Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in the US because he will then have a mouthpiece to spout off whatever he wants and more terrorists will germinate and blow up the weedy patch of WTC remains.  Of course, at-large bin Laden actually does spout off whatever he wants from time to [...]

I don’t really think much matters from the elections today.  (I voted, in San Francisco, and at a little after twelve noon I was only the 14th person to cast a ballot at the polling station, which admittedly isn’t in a very residential area, but the collectively trilingual poll workers were actually napping).  Certainly very [...]

Via Joemygod, Maggie Gallagher (the obese homophobe with face-smushing hair no producer should permit on television or in public) sort of got her main thesis zapped by, of all people, Lou Dobbs.  He asked her how, exactly, does the existence of gay marriage harm a straight couple’s union?  She couldn’t come up with an answer, [...]

It’s always been a little creepy to me the way that people seem to think George W. Bush orchestrated or knew in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks.  (I mean, duh, it was Dick Cheney).  The same people who believe (and rightly so) that Bush is an incurious ass magically endow him with startling presence [...]

So Sarah Palin ain’t the governor of Alaska no more.  She didn’t exactly go out guns blazing, but with another blob of verbal protoplasm.  Her style of impromptu self-interruption littered with platitudes reminds me of the way people speak when they’re being grilled by their superiors–except she talks that way with prepared notes.  Palin did [...]

Sarah Palin: soon to be a woman without an office.  If she’s the least bit serious about 2012, she’s going to need a crusade to stay relevant.
Birthers: a percolating stew of the disaffected.  Nothing crystallizes their paranoia about everything like the idea that the black president with the Muslim name might be an alien.  Any [...]

Check it:
Others speculated that Ms. Palin, eying the White House in 2012, plans to complete and then hawk her memoir (for which she reportedly had been seeking a seven-figure advance) and also increase her visibility along with her war chest by accepting lucrative speaking engagements — activities not so easily managed by a chief executive [...]

I saw this:

And I thought of this:

It’s for Runners World.  Tell me those gams ain’t running all the way to 2012!
Also, can that possibly be real?  The shadow of the wall sconce and Palin’s own shadow don’t make any sense.  Shitty Photoshopping, or inside joke?