From the Dept. of Political Irony comes an interview with Sarah Palin after she ceremoniously pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey. Meanwhile, a fellow Alaskan slaughters a couple birds in the background. Enjoy.

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Thanks to DW contributor Chesney Higgins for pointing us to this gallery by NPR.
Closer to home, and on a slightly sadder note, Daniel de Boom sent us some photos he snapped at the No on 8 rally over the weekend. I had planned a write up on it—Sunday’s highlights at Bixby Park included Bob Foster [...]

Missed The Rachel Maddow Show last night, but the Jezebel ladies posted a nice clip from her broadcast, and Editor Jessica Grose also sums up my feelings better than I can:
There have been many times during this campaign when we felt like we were taking crazy pills; like spinmeisters were straight out lying and their [...]

Yep, it’s true, according to Daily Breeze reporter Gene Maddaus, whose story was picked up by the Press-Telegram: Sarah Palin, everyone.
The Republican vice presidential candidate will hold a rally Oct. 4 at 2 p.m., at the Home Depot Center in Carson–so start lining up your tickets now.
Should be quite a scene.

…or maybe they just know that bullshit works.
Senator Biden has long supported stem cell research.  So it didn’t seem particularly alarming when, yesterday, Biden told a crowd of supporters, “I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy…and the difficulty of raising [...]

Author and poet Bruce A. Jacobs blogs on the racial/moral/political implications of presumptive Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s revelation that her 17-year-old teenaged daughter is five months pregnant—and unleashes an avalanche of responses.
“My blog site went completely crazy,” says Jacobs, author of Race Manners for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an [...]