Residents of Wasilla, AK are the real "Real Americans"

Gawker on Sherry Johnson's (mother of Levi, Bristol Palin's fiancee/baby daddy) recent arrest on charges of selling oxycontin:

This is a sad and not-at-all entertaining story of broke-ass bored trashy people in a miserable unhealthy little sprawling town using and selling drugs to briefly escape the dull pain of their shitty lives, and it would not be news that the mother of a high school dropout who's marrying some idiot girl he impregnated was arrested for using drugs except that at some point we were all instructed to admire these exalted Real Americans.

Well said, Gawker!

You have to see this to believe it: Sarah Palin interviewed on television while live turkeys are slaughtered in the background. When asked what she's doing at the slaughterhouse, she says, "Well this was neat! I was happy to get to participate in this... you need a little bit of levity in this job... certainly we'll probably invite criticism for even doin' this too, but at least this was fun." Yep, yep, just havin' fun at the local poultry bloodbath, gettin' in the holiday spirit and promotin' those real American values, oh for sure, yep!

A hopeful preview of tonight's debate

Katie Couric has a good video of Palin and Biden's different views on Roe V. Wade. Watch to the end for an added bonus scene where Palin can't name a single other supreme court ruling. When I talked to my mom (a NJ schoolteacher) about it, she named a couple cases she remembered off hand. Maybe SHE should run for VP! She'd be a damn fine leader, and her glasses are way cuter than Palin.