Molly Browns silver mine ran out...

as far as i am concerned so has palins, unless the women insist a nim-rod of ilk rule?

no thank you.

next up: the gay presidental conteneder?

"The vicious double standard is pretty obvious. Only the tabloids, for example, ran the photos of a piss-drunk Chelsea Clinton, panties exposed, falling into her car outside London clubs a few years ago. If Chelsea had been the scion of Republican bigwigs, those tacky scenes would have been trumpeted from pillar to post in the U.S. as signals of parental failures or turmoil in clan Clinton."

Oh please, the Bush girls made Chelsea look like the Virgin of Guadalupe. This argument just doesn't hold water. And it weakens your other arguments because it's just so full of it. The press pampered the Bushes like they were delicate roses - the bunch of them. We barely had a free press under him. We still do barely have one.

Ha! You're kidding, right?

Have you forgotten that Palin refused to answer direct questions, and just spewed talking points on her own chosen subject? Most likely she didn't even understand the question from the moderator, or simply didn't have enough knowledge of the subject to summon up a coherent response.

Camille Paglia: "Hey, wake up -- Palin cleaned Biden's clock! By the end, Biden was sighing and itching to split."

The term "cleaned his clock" is overused on Salon, and in this context its definition is in question. I thought "to clean somebody's clock" meant to beat the living shit out of them (either that, or to apply rubbing alcohol to the Roman Numerals with a small scrubby brush).

Yet Paglia's support for how Palin cleaned Biden's clock amounts to Biden sighing. What sorts of debate competitions did Paglia participate in during her academic years? Is there a guidebook somewhere that says, "If you sigh, you have lost." Is letting out a sigh like knocking the 8-ball into a pocket during a game of pool?

I am not sure Biden was itching to leave. At the end of the debate, he strode confidently to the front of the stage, shook hands with Palin, and stood smiling alongside his wife. Palin looked no more at ease than he did.

I guess we all see what we want to see, huh? Paglia certainly does. Or maybe for Sarah Palin, the scorecard grants her a huge handicap.

By the same reasoning Paglia uses, I'm sure I could clean Tiger Woods' clock in a game of golf if you gave me a 50-stroke handicap. And I don't even play golf.

Paglia complains about "vultures" in the media, but one of her favorite pastimes is making up letters from phony "readers" about hate crimes, so she can once again pick over the bones of Matthew Shepard. Paglia has frequently returned to implications about Shepard and the victims of such crimes as if it's a jolly intellectual funfest that jibes with her ever-so precious speculations about gay men in "Sexual Personae."

Seriously, think about this for a minute: she makes up letters and then answers them herself so she can feel oh-so-witty about dredging up moral insinuations about the victims of violent murder.

This is sick, sick stuff. Joan Walsh and Salon could certainly bring on credible voices to responsibly debate hate crimes legislation, including those who are opposed to such laws. But Paglia sees real murder and real tragedy as her own personal look-at-how-contrarian-I-am playground, and Walsh and Salon should be deeply ashamed. Maybe one day Joan Walsh et al will again find their better nature and realize that sanctioning the most vile homophobia from someone like Paglia, who gets off on playing look-at-me games over the corpses of murdered gay men (and her lesbian identication has never excused her recurrent homophobia) is no better than if Salon ran columns by a racist who thought it was the height of wit to keep dredging up the dragging death of James Byrd in order to slander the victim.

Salon and it's primary powers-- and I am looking at people like you, Joan Walsh-- should be ready to step forward and explain why, exactly, they think this stuff is okay. Their silence implies they passively approve of real-life murder victims being treated with the same flippant, vulturistic showboat approach as Paglia musing on Madonna.

Palin knew months ago she was going to resign on July 3, declare her "independence" -- yet, she only told the Lt. Governor at the last minute. She planned that photo shoot in "Runner's World" to send the message, yes, she is running in 2012. This was totally planned. Unfortunately, Palin takes counsel from no one, except maybe Todd.

Palin can't seem to keep her departments straight. Is she talking about the actual Department of Law in Alaska? Or the Office of Legal Counsel in the White House? Or the Supreme Court of the U.S.?

Palin actually debuted the "Law Department" on Friday 7/3, but no one seemed to pick it up. She said it and she posted it on her website. In her 7/3 remarks the "Law Department" is the Supreme Court.

Excerpt from Palin's 7/3 speech:

"Another accomplishment -- our Law Department protected states’ rights -- two huge U.S. Supreme Court reversals came down against that liberal Ninth Circuit, deciding in our state’s favor over the last two weeks. We’re protectors of our Constitution -- federalists protect states’ rights as mandated in 10th amendment."

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/exec-column.php

Her speech was not off the cuff. Palin wrote it herself and posted it word for word on her website just as the press conference was starting. She read the speech into a portable, mobile teleprompter. Greta's show posted enough video that it included pan back shots showing the teleprompter Palin read into, with a camera on either side of the teleprompter. Paul Begala's take at HuffPo on her posted text is priceless, with all of its various ALL CAPS and exclamation points and odd punctuation. Her rambling syntax was planned, and all the more frightening.