Because, in Iraq, there are no cream pies

During a press conference in Iraq, as President Push was speaking alongside the Iraqi prime minister, a man hurled two shoes at Bush, one after the other. In this screen capture, Bush ducks the first shoe:

Click the picture to go to BBC tape of the event. Extra points to the man for getting off both throws before he was jumped upon and beaten to a pulp.

Meanwhile, someone burned down Sarah Palin's Wasilla, AK church. Sheesh!

The first thing I've seen that makes me like Sarah Palin

Now that it's safe to do so.

At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute," she said.

That's from a Newsweek article rounding up bits and pieces from the campaign.

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Vote-shy

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It's so over

Utterly brilliant is my friend's take on the Palin nomination:

It's uncanny, isn't it, how the guyz only seem to adopt a form after it has been drained of every last whiff of inspiration, meaning, or purpose and has limped off to die? Thus, one cannot be surprised to find that it is within the sublimely ironic Sarah Palin Republican candidacy that the once-vital corpse of Second-Wave Feminism seems to have reached its final resting place, caught like a consolation prize in the triumphal, rigid, and perfectly unmusical embrace of the official Party of the Straight White Men, where it will moulder for decades as an anachronism so empty it is devoid of even a clue.

Dandy is so awesome.

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On Salon: All Palin, all the time

On Open Salon, I couldn't help myself: I posted an entry about Sarah Palin. In part:

Whatever the likelihood that McCain might die in office, it's 100% probable that if he does die in office, the president will then be Sarah Palin... This darling of religious conservatives who is forcing her own 17-year-old daughter to bear an unplanned-for child and to marry her deer-in-the-headlights boyfriend would be appointing Supreme Court justices until 2012, and maybe for four years after that.

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