A post that starts with beer will end with Palin everytime – norwegianity.wordpress.com 08/02/2009 Frank Rich on the beer summit and American racism. I would have linked without comment but the truth is Rich managed to sort out some details I had been confused about, possibly because the media whoring on this one long ago eclipsed the actual news content. Cambridge is the improbable spark that brought the base’s racism out of the closet.

Leon Panetta Sen Mark Udall Sen Harry Reid “I can’t believe that the Iranian oppressive regime held “three American” tourists” at the Iran-Iraq border. I mean, if the US border patrol were to come across “three Iranian tourists” at the Canadian-American border, they would be treated with respect, hospitality, and dignity.” – As’ad AbuKhalil Now that Congress is out of session and every last one of them were gone early Friday afternoon, during the month of August there will be lots and lots of articles and opinions written about health care and the reforms that Congress is trying to pass.

Photo by michael starghill . You know, a wise man once told me that if you make it really easy for someone to do something they feel compelled to do, then they’ll probably do it — despite all warnings to the contrary. Put a warm cookie in front of a child and tell them it will burn their mouth, and the kid will still grab and chomp. Put a cocktail in front of an alcoholic in distress and he’ll probably drink it.

I’m sure you heard about the Sarah Palin divorce nonsense yesterday.  Conservatives 4 Palin stomped on the rumors quickly and gave a bit of a back story to the idiocy: The release is in response to a ludicrous rumor being spread by Alaskan CNN stringer Dennis Zaki. Zaki, who previously bought into rumors of Trig Truth, picked up these allegations from the same source – the rabidly anti-Palin, Trig Truth-espousing anonymous blogger “Gryphen” of the blog “Immoral Minority”.