Cudgel, dimension, effigy, guile, hasp. Effigy, guile, hasp, ink.

Palin's as dumb as she appears to be or smart and acting stupid, and if the latter, ask yourself why and to whom and which is worse, that Team Republican didn't care she's too dumb to govern or thinks she's smart enough to rule but need seem stupid to be elected?

Alternatively, she's brilliant, savvy, like a con-man with new information delivery ahead of her time, a Roosevelt with a radio, a Palin with low-budget, easy-to-produce reality-shows all-the-time. Does anyone innately understand the expiration dates on ZOMG! daily outrages better?

Alternatively she's grifter sharp, knows she's been hit by luck's lightening, knows her money-making window's NOW! and wants to ca-ching, and which of us doesn't and wouldn't?

!hEh! Look who Fred Hiatt put on his op-ed page. Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle.

Sheeyit, mofos, thirty more years.

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• Read Jim's story of dog lost, dog found, subsequent ethical dilemma. My guess is that the parents would beat the kids for getting caught.
• UPDATE! On Palin in the Post.
• Good thing Obama insisted on cramdown. Oh.
• Snuff stuff.
• Aargocalyptic!
• It's not what Cheney did, it's that Senators are pissed he pissed in their ears.
• Snuff stuff.
• Anti-News.
• What would you expect an ex-CIA official to say? (And who said snuff had to be limited to al-Q, though what would you expect an ex-CIA official to say?) (And imagine the blegs in my evil-Spock universe that'd bitch if the CIA wasn't secretly snuffing people.)
• UPDATE! Sex and violence, with playlists.
• Daily Obamapostasy.
• Fuck you, SHA.
• UPDATE! I doubt DC needs another sports-talk station, but if it pisses of Little Danny Snyder, I'm for it (even if I won't listen to it). More here.
  
• More Maryland crappy cops.
• Ride On! Follow-up.
• UPDATE! Daily Blegoscopy!
• PET-BLEGGING!

 

Everything I expect from Mantel - wicked and wickedly funny gut-level investigations in the cruel engines that drive us - though I confess my shallow knowledge of British history (and my disinterested unwillingness to do the necessary research to fully appreciate the novel) lessened the novel's gut-punches. Worth the read, of course, though Beyond Black, if you haven't read Mantel, is the one to start.

• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Today's Listening Assignment. (yes, again)

UPDATE!

The two most frightening sentences published today, unmitigated by the parenthetical assurance of non-disaster:

On the allocation list, Dallas is first, DCU is second. The buzz is that DaMarcus Beasley and Stern John might end up returning to the league this summer (neither, though, seems likely for DCU).

Also, this from Benny:

Midfielder Ben Olsen, on Saturday's match: "We are ready to start getting some wins here. The ties are still haunting us and Colorado is still haunting us, so hopefully we can fix two situations in one game."

Saturday is as must-win as it gets, yes?

• Today's Listening Assignment.
• More Mazzy Star.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• UPDATE! Moka's latest mix.
• Iris Dement. Iris Dement.
• Always the Same is a GREAT song.

UPDATE!

Why this just popped in my head who knows, be in yours:

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EVENT

Mark Levine

1. Thatched roof webbed against the sea.

2. Moon and red water, red sea-vines, sea-plants, the momentary
        shoreline.

3. Striped shirt knotted to the branch of a fir.
    Spotted shirt tacked above a sagging doorframe.

4. Darkness on one side; daylight beyond.

5. Rain. Glass tiles in a murky basin.

6. The instruction to dance, heels fixed to the plank.

7. Clattering of beads. Wind stirring the red lanterns.

8. "....a long way from home," etc.

9. Ladder angled against an angled wall; rungs blackened by
        bootprints.

10. Accordion, bamboo, crinoline, drift.
      Burial, crabgrass, demonstration, edge.

11. A metallic thrum beneath the pile of shavings.

12. "The women pretending to be crows,
      The men pretending to be something else."

13. Bodies glossed by moonlight.

14. A keepsake, a number, a means of transportation, a message,
        a rock.

15. Cudgel, dimension, effigy, guile, hasp.
      Effigy, guile, hasp, ink.

16. Asleep in the weeds with the migrating sea-birds.

17. Borrowing a stranger's varnished canoe. 

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More Archers of Loaf, my current re-obsession: