Has anyone caught wind of the Obama campaign’s presence on satellite TV? I haven’t seen anything in the regular (or crispy) MSM…. About the” is he or isn’t he?” Muslim hoorah: Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Moyers Friday last points out that every mention of that insults all non-terrorist Muslims…..peace-loving neighbors….Granted, this goes without saying, but I had not thought about it in that light….

Sarah Palin, fashionista? But, she’s not fit to lick your boot. A Star is Born? Such wishful thinking on the side of Madison Avenewtes, who cannot seem to get with the program on, “What’s Next.” The only salvageable piece of Palin’s persona is her frontier-woman affect, which speaks to our larger needs for freedom and security. But she blew it - with hate mongering, willful ignorance and end-times righteousity. And why would we jump on a calistoga wagon - into that future? As Christopher Hitchens said today, her gift for circling wagons seems her only talent. Circling her wagons around an eternal fire that burns into the endtimes. Could a person wander farther from the zietgeist? ‘Frontier-woman’ usually translates to courage and self-reliance. Americans embrace it all - until she opens her mouth to spew a toxic soup of old, received ideas. Suddenly, her ‘courage’ cred flipped and rolled. Two reasons she’s not a star of the future: 1. Palin’s not there, yet. The future is here; it’s DIY - and humane, innovative, open and collective. Clearly, not her scene. (But, with this election, her world has cracked open, so who knows? Maybe she’d just latched onto the best-thing-going in Alaska - and she’s due for a makeover. (The only possibility, for her appeal to last.) 2. Neither is the industry. (There, yet.) The ad/media industry is largely missing the essence of DIY. (Do It Yourself.) On the east coast, how could it be otherwise - when exec’s days are lived on a concrete island, getting mani-pedis in a service-based economy? Where every little green project you endeavor to take on must be lugged on the train or loaded into a cab - and carried up four flights of stairs? In LA, DIY extends to ordering a home gym and flipping the switch on your kitchen counter espresso-machine. The ad/media industry would love to repeat a formula by launching a fragrance or building a TV show around the ‘idea’ of DIY - rather than jumping on that wagon, themselves. The next frontier will be forged by talented, productive, aware dyno-mamas like Andrea Zittel. Fashion, after all, moves Forward.

Gosh Paw Paw, I don’t know to what you are refferencing. I never said anything regarding the age of anyone, So pardon me, but I don’t understand your question. And no, I’m not thinking of you as being a smarty pants at all. You are asking me a question, unfortunately, I’m not clear as to what you are asking. :)

Does anyone think she actually knows enough to do that point counter point thing? that’s nuts!

Well, ladies. This has been a wowser of a thread. From talk-show formats to scriptural exigesis. Anyway you look at it, it’s clear to me that the people of Alaska will bring down Sarah Palin, one notch at a time.

One thing is totally clear to me re biblical exegesis: no one but a trained theologian should read Revelation under any circumstances for any reason whatsoever—my oh my

I understand Paris Hilton is looking for a new BFF…

She could not be a talk show host; that implies that she is hosting someone else and thus would allow them to speak.

I see her having Sandra Lee as a regular guest for the cooking section.

This must be written here and now. This website is keeping me sane. People who had polio cannot make endorphins, but the laughing certainly increases something. Thank everyone. You’re my beacon in this tragic storm that’s been raging for almost 3 years. Imagine that, all these months, with these idiots on our TV screens, in our headlines, on our radios, day and night, tossing us against the rocks, repeatedly, forcing us to swim when we had no legs, yet hearing the voice from above telling us not to panic. You have kept me from committing myself in self-defense. I thought raising 5 kids and maintaining 1.75 careers concurrently, was a challenge - yep, I only got to jog in place at the kitchen sink, after hours - but nothing compares to this election; not even an insane divorce. Nothing. Simply nothing. Thank you for having us…or helping us, as the case may be.