The prank may not be news--the comedians have done this to several leaders, but I've never heard of them until now--what's news is that Sarah is 1)apparently too dense/arrogant to realize that she's being made fun of, and 2)apparently too stupid to know who the prime minister of Canada is, or anything else. This is news, whether you like it or not.

Granted, Sarah Palin is probably not stupider than George Bush. But the fact that George Bush's stupidity and incompetence were so grossly overlooked by the media and almost half the population has cost this country dearly. Should we continue to overlook a massive lack of qualifications in any candidate?

Only a certain segment of very blindly partisan, religiously ideological Republicans are still willing to do so. Christopher, I guess you ar one of them.

and it's not harrassment. Dear God. If saying anything negative about Sarah Palin becomes legally actionable harrassment then what have we become? Stalinist Russia, that's right.

I'm usually one of the ones of forked and noxious tongue and I just wanted to say, thanks for coming on and addressing us personally.

In spite of my noxious steaming cynicism, I ended up getting Goodnight Moon when I had a little girl and of course ended up reading it about 2,357 times over the next couple of years, over and over before bedtime. It will always be special to me, especially now that my baby is more interested in getting made up and dressed to go out in the evening than in being held in my lap and read to before going to sleep.

Dammit, now I'm crying. Jeez!

These two totally self absorbed idiots need to lose their jobs and struggle for survival for a good long time until they get their priorities in order. What spoiled, awful, egotistical assholes. Both of you. Really. I feel sorry for your one kid, and hope you two immature fools aren't planning to have another one.

Come up for air for a second. Just for a second, pull your heads out of your asses and look around. There's a big world all around you, there's a lot going on this world and guess what--none of it is about you and none of it gives a fucking shit about you. That's the truth. Get some perspective for the love of God.

Then take a deep breath and get on with life and pay some attention to your baby. If you want to have virtual affairs online, then have them. Have real affairs if you want, or get divorced, or stay married, trust each other, or don't trust each other. Who cares? Nobody, and it's totally not important. Just decide how you want to raise your kid, and do that, and cut the drama queen business.

SHEESH.

I'll be in Dubai, where I went to try to get a halfway decent job with healthcare. I left exactly two weeks before the banks went down the tubes in a big, big way. I feel like I narrowly escaped a burning house.

Would love to come back when the country is prosperous and liveable again, though.

Go Obama!

...why each and every sex story is automatically relegated to what is ostensibly the women's issue section. In what way is this shit a women's concern?

Also, weird that you're favorite (esp. as a feminist) come-on should be anything to do with "let's make a baby". For God's sake when having casual sex with total strangers, let's leave conception and children out of it.

Worst. Broadsheet. Entry. Ever.

should be "adequate number of voting machines"....

the word "amount" is used for uncountable nouns.

reflect the fact that Fox's viewership is overwhelmingly about the age of Rupert Murdoch himself--that is, 137 or something.

As this angry, elderly demographic of rural white racists literally starts to die off, abominations like Fox will disappear and America will slowly, hopefully, become a better place.

The kind of conservatives who are pro-big business elitists, however, are of all ages and will always be with us, I'm afraid. Let's marginalize them into becoming the small special interest party they were meant to be, like the FDP in Germany for example, which never garners more than 15% of the vote.

most people that age are surely suffering from some stage of dementia? If you're very old and mentally infirm, can you be said to be making an informed choice? So why are we feting this?

but the thing to remember with Baptist fundies is that they just will not let up until everyone in the room is either converted or reduced to tears. It's literally their mission in life, remember. It's a challenge to deal with them for sure. But I think your answer was about as good as it gets.

The campaign staff were not cowards and jerks, they were doing us a public service. It's very important for all to know how total a witch Palin is lest anyone be tempted to run her for anything ever again.

Thank you, campaign staffers who dished about the Witch of the North. We needed to know.

And shame on you Joan for buying into Palin's whine about those mean people who talked bad about her. You seem to think she deserves to be handled with kid gloves because she's a woman. If John McCain or Biden were throwing horrible tantrums on the trail, wouldn't that be legit news? So why isn't it in Palin's case? And can we please stop calling her Sarah? She should be called by her last name.

I do have to say what bugs me the most about her is rarely discussed--the thinly veiled way she suggested she would seek recrimination against all perceived enemies, including SNL. Now that is scary. Very Stalinesque, that.