Aides traveling with Ms. Palin have reported back to associates that she is a fast study — asking few questions of her policy briefers but quickly repeating back their main points — who already has considerable ease and experience before cameras.

Plus, she’s pretty like a myna bird!

When I am nominated for the Presidency, which, I swear, is inevitable, I will nominate a tape recorder from some remote place like Alaska, Montana, or Albany as my vice president. Then I will put lipstick on it. [The New York Times]

Discuss.

Detectives Charged in Sean Bell Shooting Acquitted on All Counts [NY1]

Fake tan? $30 monthly membership on debit card. A&F t-shirt? $39 on debit card. Having your fraternity brother call you on your cell while you are on live teevee to tell you that you look like a tool? Priceless.

Obama Wins Key Abercrombie & Fitch Vote [Towleroad] - warning, this is a HOMOSEXUAL site (but SFW)

Oh, what did you think I was talking about, brown people? Ha, fuck you, no. I’m actually talking about the news that 1 in every 100 adult Americans is in prison. No, no shit, for real. Fully one percent of the population of this country is in fucking jail. Oh, and let’s not talk about if you are brown. One in every 26 Latino men is in jail, and one in EVERY FIFTEEN African-American men in this country in is in jail (sorry, RedManLaw, no stats for Native Americans but I’m sure it sucks for them, too). White girls like me have it slightly better, with only one in every 355 of us in jail, but, sorry, DickCheneysBlackSister, you’re a little too above-average- one in every 100 African-American women is incarcerated these days. Oh, and you know I got some thoughts about that shit, and not just because it’s after 2 am and I’ve been drinking.

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