This excerpt from the Boston Herald:

It’s America’s newest disease - only diagnosed by some in the media a few days ago - but it is spreading among the nation’s Beautiful People at an alarming rate.

You know it by its initials - PDS. Palin Derangement Syndrome.

You can watch the victims of PDS on TV every night, frothing at the mouth in front of Obama banners, repeating scurrilous lies lifted from left-wing blogs or just making up new whoppers as they go along. It’s an epidemic - Palin Derangement Syndrome swept through MSNBC studios this week and claimed two anchors (Matthews and Olbermann), who are survived by dozens of viewers.

The bad news is, PDS appears to be incurable. The good news is, it only strikes one demographic group - moonbats.

Like so many earlier plagues, PDS mutated from an earlier affliction, BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome. But BDS often metastasized over months, if not years, and struck across the political spectrum.

Are you at risk of contracting this virulent contagion? Do you work for a living? If the answer to the latter is yes, the answer to the former is probably no.

You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary. PDS is spread by “Typhoid Sarah,” but it’s not infectious. It only strikes the Politically Correct. So far, it has struck only those who believe that 9/11 was an “inside job,” or who have “Redefeat Bush” bumper stickers on the backs of their Priuses.

Researchers racing for the cure say that sometimes a single word or term relating to Sarah can touch off a full-blown case of PDS - “pro-life” is one such predictive phrase, and others include “blue-collar,” “public school” and, most alarming of all, “mother of five.”

Normally considered nothing more than a plagiarizing blowhard, Joe B. was struck down with a particularly nasty strain of PDS - an overpowering depression and paranoia about his own worthlessness. Never one to speak succinctly, Joe B. suddenly became an even bigger windbag, sputtering, “Hillary Clinton is is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America and, quite frankly, might have been a better pick than me.”

"You neglected to mention that the PDS piece was written by Howie Carr, not exactly a friend of the liberal cause."

Oh, so you only read opinions you agree with? How pathetic. I try to read everything I can get my hands on. Like it or not. Try Real Clear Politics, where editorials from both sides of the spectrum are presented and you actually have to use your noggin, if it's not been reduced to mush yet, to make up your mind. That's where I happened upon this piece.. And as an independent who's finally decided to vote for McCain, I must admit, it's absolutely delicious to watch the Messiah spinning endlessly in the spiraling current before finally being flushed down the drain. Buh-bye. oh Great One.