Sarah Palin... Dick

Boy, that title ought to freak out the search engines... Check out the Dickopedia's entry for Sarah Palin...





http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1694723,00.html
Also, check out this Newsweek article by Sam Harris about Palin, elitism, and why we shouldn't have hyper-religious people near the presidency. Here is one of my favorite parts of the article in which Harris reimagines Charlie Gibson's interview with Palin to make the point about "elitism": (no, its not the cheez wiz Star Search winner that used to wow idiots with his over the top version of Over the Rainbow

"Governor Palin, are you ready at this moment to perform surgery on this child's brain?"

"Of course, Charlie. I have several boys of my own, and I'm an avid hunter."

"But governor, this is neurosurgery, and you have no training as a surgeon of any kind."
"That's just the point, Charlie. The American people want change in how we make medical decisions in this country. And when faced with a challenge, you cannot blink."

The prospects of a Palin administration are far more frightening, in fact, than those of a Palin Institute for Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated.

I have my issues with Sam Harris... certainly not because he is an atheist or a provocateur, but because his approach to atheism, in my view, borders on religion. That said, I agree with him way more than I disagree with him, so more power to him.