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• Palin is Booed at Indiana Book-Signing

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • Yes--- particularly when there was a limited number of people given access to her for the signing.

• Palin is Booed at Indiana Book-Signing

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • No doubt the noisy crowd was made up of a bunch of bored, pathetic, lonely bloggers who lie when they're not pallin' around with terrorists or watching David Letterman, and Sarah retired to her bus to pray for them.

• Palin is Booed at Indiana Book-Signing

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • Sarah did the cut-and-run at a Noblesville, IN book-signing event, leaving 150 angry fans in the cold. See the vid...

• Cliff Notes for Palin Book

  Thu Nov 19, 2009
  • I'd choose them over Cheney/Voldemoort.

• "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Conservative media's obssesion with 'rape' metaphor

  Fri Nov 20, 2009
  • Yes, the wingnuts totally need counseling. They perceive themselves as perpetual victims -- as reflected in their metaphors of rape, "grabbing their ankles," "anal poisoning," "shoving it down our throats," "teabag" etc.

• "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Conservative media's obssesion with 'rape' metaphor

  Fri Nov 20, 2009
  • I checked, just to be sure. A lot of dictionaries say you're wrong. "A lot of dictionaries" do not change the etymology. rap-, rav- + (Latin: tearing away, seizing, swift, rapid; snatch away, seize, carry off; from Latin rapere, "to seize by force and to carry off") correption

• "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Conservative media's obssesion with 'rape' metaphor

  Fri Nov 20, 2009
  • Actually, rape as a term for forced sexual congress is a relatively new variation. Originally from a Latin term "the act of seizing and carrying off by force," with the implication of sexual conquest as a secondary meaning, as in The Rape of the Sabine Women.

• Sarah Palin's Entire Existence is Sexist!

  Thu Nov 19, 2009
  • At that point, can we really get bent out of shape every time we see the media reflecting the reality that Palin is a product of sexism in their coverage of her? We have crossed the Rubicon, people. Everything about Palin is sexist.

• Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages

  Thu Nov 19, 2009
  • What doofusses! Isn't the plural more correctly "doofi."

• Cliff Notes for Palin Book

  Thu Nov 19, 2009
  • A-Mac-- I like your sticker idea but it is too wordy. On the back of a semi, maybe? I'm gonna make a few teeshirts with a picture of Sarah and this quote, however: "im PRO-foundly stupid and i vote