But will it last?

It’s been five entire days since Sarah Palin ceased being an elected official, and her fans are restless, the AP reports. “Sarah can you give us just a hint!” pleaded one Facebook follower. Said another: “Sarah, our country really NEEDS YOU NOW!!!” Palin promised to launch her next chapter on social networking sites, but so far the world hasn’t heard a tweet from her.

BUT WILL IT LAST??!!

No. Sadly, no.

We wish we could be all witty about the Beer Summit, but six months into the Obama Presidency, we fear that something ugly has emerged from the rock it’s been hiding under. It’s Jeff Sessions calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist. It’s Glenn Beck calling Obama a racist. It’s people in positions of authority and influence not calling them on it, for fear of — what? Disturbing the peace?

Have you seen the face of hate? Happily, we haven’t, not personally — only in pictures we grew up with, as a child in the Sixties and a teenager in the Seventies. Iconic images, many of moments we literally lived through, but seemed a distant past by the time we came to consciousness.

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Stinque.com has sighted a piece of fruit in the beer being sucked down by Cambridge Cop James Crowley at the White House during his photo op with President Obama, Professor Gates and VP Joe Biden, likely making him persona non grata amongst all real Cambridge cops who drink Black Label, warm, in tall cans, to chase down juice glasses of Jameson’s served neat.

The fruit evidence was revealed in this news reel:

Sgt. Crowley, without his uniform, nursing his fruit-adorned beer appeared subdued, passively sitting while crazy old man and Harvard University lecturer Louis Gates waved his arms and raved on and on, making no move to arrest him or Obama or the clearly shit-faced Biden.

The fruit can be clearly viewed in action between 00:12-00:17 in the video when Crowley lifts and slurps from his glass.

Real beer drinkers can view the horror on this page where the video still-shot clearly shows some kind of fruit, likely lemon or orange.

At one point during Monday night’s Green Day show at Madison Square Garden, Billie Joe Armstrong announced that he needed someone on stage who could play the guitar:

If that little girl in her Misfits shirt and her pigtails can get up on stage at Madison Square Garden and absolutely own it, there is hope for the future. That is all.

Atrios reminds us that, in the not so distant past, the Villagers thought Ahhhnold was the best politican EVAR. Maybe they should check in with the citizens of California to see how things are working out:

A new PPIC Poll in California shows Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) job approval rating dropped to a new low of 28%.

The last time a California governor’s approval rating was that low was in 2003 when then-Gov. Gray Davis faced a recall election and was in a budget standoff with the Legislature.

Oh my. That does not sound good. But remember the good ol’ days, when guys like Richard Cohen were coming in their pants for Arnold?

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Think Progress, Wednesday, 8:45 p.m.:

A comprehensive analysis of Palin’s last two months of Twitter updates (May 26-July 26) reveals…

Please. We beg you. Before you hurt yourself, or those around you. For the love of humanity, of furry critters, of bad DVDs with your loved ones, of flat orange soda, of three-ply toilet paper, of cold pizza, of satellite rugby, of Mingus and Dolphy, of all that is holy in the world and incapable of mortal debasement:

Get help.

A Statistical Analysis Of Policy Trends And Abnormalities In Sarah Palin’s Tweets [Think Progress]