And yes, I am talking about the hearts and minds of America.

pic posted at girlfriday's request

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I actually do have more to say about Palin, having grown up not that far from the miniscule town of Wasila (which our basketball team consistently spanked), and also that outlandish rustic appeal of Alaskan woman, clearly visible in my own mien... [but I have to go to work in 20 minutes, so quickly:] Having some of the same experiences as this lady, I can honestly say that every Alaskan woman, in a wheelchair or not, has fished and done some of the stuff everyone's all oogly-eyed about down here.

But it takes a very particular breed of Alaskan woman to have been a beauty queen. Veerrrry particular.

Alaska is butt-ass weird to have voted for her in the first place, but do they love their dumbed up oil-loving Repubs up there. But seriously, McCain: what were you thinking? I know people are all excited and she's getting good blog drool, but a) it would scare the shit out of me if it ended up that she were all there was between us and total anarchy, and b) one rather inane woman certainly can't pull the vote of all those women who were dying for representation at the national level; we/they wanted an awesome, brilliant woman to remind all men everywhere that so many ladies are mighty supergeniuses to be reckoned with.

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By the way, the bear and the crab in above photo are still alive. She's just trained them using a single leash, barrels of peanut butter, and several spite-eyed glares.