Life below the Rabbit Hole

Annie Althouse takes 26 paragraphs to come to the earth-shattering conclusion that Sarah Palin is not that bright!

Wow. Only 26 paragraphs? And 15 of them are her own!

Shocking. Just shocking. How quickly the celebupol was thrown under the bus. How will her fan base survive?

Highlights include - well, actually the only highlight includes - a reference to Kim Jong Il's portrayal in Team America as a lesson for how to deal with world leaders when it comes to the infusion of pathos into the job of being president. The rest is comprised of the stunning analysis provided by Palin's dealings with Katie Couric at the behest of her own campaign advisor. It is not clear why trusting one's advisor conveys a sense of stupidity that the interview with Couric itself did not, or that a fear of interviews as treacherous things did not, but at least we get the Page 6 angle assessing Palin's fitness for the office. Which apparently is the least complicated way of letting the Tea Partiers down.

For myself, I think that moment was revealed here:



At least the call involved the humor of a silly - nay, ridiculous - prank and the pity provoked by someone caught so off-guard, after realizing her inability to exact the sort of revenge for which Palin is well-known, that she was audibly flustered.

But pity is not a familiar emotion to a GOP that has fallen so far, so pathetically, and so pugnaciously. And hence, these practiced appeals to displays of self-pity so intense and implausible as to merit the sort of infamy that Glenn Beck would be relegated to at any other time.

Vets Go Surfing!

A pretty cool way to spend the day.

The Women's Correctional Facility Called

And they want their star soccer player back.



HT: Sully.

Cumbersome

Have you become cumbersome to this economy?

I'm Back! (Again!)

And can't wait until the next opportunity I get to bask in the relaxation of a different place, interacting with different people, getting a glimpse of different ways of going about this silly journey we call "life" without all the bullshit that seems to accompany it for some reason. Maybe somewhere in the South Pacific...

Cheers to the Trooper for coming up with yet another very novel version of 101 Dalmatians - this time Spanish mujer style. He's got a spot here next time on Late Night with the Jungle Rhythm.

Anyway, just because I felt like it, and because I was just in Spain, here's a pic of King Juan Carlos I telling Hugo Chavez to shut the hell up. Who says Old Europe and undemocratically chosen leaders can't be a force for putting a third-world dictator and stubborn pain in America's ass in his place? I just love the way he said that, too: Por que no te callas?



Nice!

So dignified. So effective. So authoritative. So little that Chavez could do about it.

There are definitely things me and the righties can agree on.

Bon Voyage!

Montana Urban Legend/Brazilian Jungle Rhythm is leaving on a week-long cruise of the Western Mediterranean.

Hope you enjoy his absence while he's away as much as you enjoy his barely noticeable presence and negligible activity on this blog while he's here!

Suddenly BISSAGE!!!

This guy is absolutely hilarious. He deserves a link.

Just as soon as my lazy ass gets around to fiddling with the blog settings.

In the meantime, here's a sample post.

As I said, ingenious stuff.

I'm going to be checking back as often as possible.

And so should you.

Rare Scientist Sighted over at The Althouse Blog

And teaches them about things like critical thinking and how to apply it to relevant observations, why you need to read a study before critiquing its design or its findings, etc., and other good stuff.

At least, that's what the good astrophysics graduate student did until he retired for the evening. Unfortunately the trolls took over the next day to throw breadcrumbs of interminable doubt and ignorance all over the clean trail of logic and facts that he left behind.

I guess the author of the post deserves credit for at least insisting that she really does understand the difference between weather and climate, though. Right? I mean, that's a positive development, no?