Sarah Palin

Lying Liars, 2009 Edition

I’m not all political like some of you Dose folks, so I’ve only just discovered PolitiFact, a project of the St. Petersburg Times that fact-checks statements by the White House, Congress, lobbyists and interest groups. While others have listed the years’s top music albums or best-selling books, PolitiFact polled the top eight lies told by politicians …

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Open The Door, Get On The Floor. Everybody Walk The Dinosaur.

Every week at the Guardian John Crace reads a horrible-sounding book and hilariously breaks it down for you, sparing you the trouble of actually having to read it.  This week, he tackles Kaylene Johnson’s book about Sarah Palin; as usual with anything written about Palin, the line between ridiculous and possibly true is completely non-existent: …

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Happy New Year’s Eve Eve!

I know you’ll all be partying tomorrow night, so I’m getting this out of the way now. It’s my favorite video of the week of things we’ll miss and things we *really* won’t miss from 2008. It’s set to the song “New Lang Syne (Thank God It’s Over)” by Jim’s Big Ego and was created …

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News Slap: Holy Hairbrush Edition

Hair as feathered and fine as Rod Blagojevich’s requires vigilance, mousse, and a special Paul Mitchell hairbrush the crooked guv bizarrely calls “the football” (the article also contains other anecdotal nuggets detailing HotRod’s hilarious spiral into megalomaniacal madness). In case you missed the highly amusing video of an Iraqi journalist fucking a shoe at Bush’s …

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North Koreastan!

Remember a year ago, when it seemed like Mike Gravel was going to be the most surreal thing about this election?  Ahh, innocent times. Anyway, if you haven’t already, go to palinaspresident.us if you like things like “dark humor” and “websites with lots of flash” and “laughing uncomfortably”.  (I actually only thought it was slightly …

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Juneau

My main concern with today’s news is the timing.  If little Bristol’s water breaks during the inauguration ceremony those marble steps could become quite a hazard. America’s race to the bottom continues. People uncomfortable with the dreaded ‘elite’ label ought to feel right at home with the Palins.

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