Levi Johnston:

Johnston also told [Maggie] Rodriguez [on the CBS Early Show] he’s been hearing a lot about his saying in a recent first-person tell-all in Vanity Fair magazine that Palin routinely referred to her baby, Trig, who suffers from Down syndrome, as “retarded.”

“I was just in shock for the first time I heard it,” Johnston recalled for Rodriguez. “And then she’d say it regularly. And I think she was joking, but it doesn’t make it right.”

Sarah Palin:

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From the folks who brought you the Mormon stud calendar (now in its third edition), comes Hot Mormon Muffins:

The women featured in the calendar range in age from 26 to 53. Some have as many as four children. Several are stay-at-home moms, while others are students, real estate agents, cosmetologists and dance instructors. One is a former Miss Utah and another is a breast cancer survivor, according to biographies on the calendar Web site.

There’s also a series of cheesecake videos on their website, including tips on how to “Prepare Your Muffins for Latter-day Disasters” and “Resurrect Your Muffins”. We’d post one here, but the timing is, shall we say, a little flat.

Calendar pokes fun at Mormon mom stereotype [AP/AZcentral, via RML]

We usually wait for the DVD, but apparently Curb Your Enthusiasm has a more interesting plot twist this year than the Seinfeld reunion:

At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus; he doesn’t clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer. When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, “every erection is a miracle.”

“Was Larry David always this crude?” asks the Catholic League. “Would he think it comedic if someone urinated on a picture of his mother?”

Yes. And, we suspect, Yes.

On ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ Larry David Urinates on Jesus [Opposing Views]

Ahhhnold. Instead of signing an utterly routine bill for San Francisco, he has his GOP stooges send this:

Gov. Schwarzenegger to Tom Ammiano & SF: Fuck You [SFist]

• Pigs fly: 50,000:1
• Christ descends from Heaven: 80,000:1
• “Just kidding,” says Joe Lieberman: 750:1

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Sarah Palin’s signature on a ghostwritten book is worth at least $1.25 million, according to a financial disclosure released today — the last filing for Talibunny’s temp job as Alaska governor. She claims to have blown $600,000 of that on “legal fees to fight false allegations while governor,” which still leaves $625,000 for a live-in airplane hangar.

Alas, a cool million doesn’t go as far as it used to, so Palin’s still reading prepared texts for beer money. Which brings us to today’s email from Team Sarah:

The Iowa Family Policy Action center needs to raise $41,000 in order to have Sarah Palin come to speak on November 21, 2009. They have raised $59,000 already, but they need to know there is enough coming in to ensure that they can pull this off.

Won’t you give generously? Mommy needs a Northland to keep the mooseburgers fresh.

Palin’s book retainer: $1.25 million [ADN, via TPM]

Looks like French Thetans are reporting to their landing stations today, thanks to a ruling in France that’s forcing the French branch of Scientology (preciously called, “Scientologie”) to pay up to a million bucks in fines.

There were two separate charges of fraud and extortion, filed by two women. One forked over about $40,000 for… well, whatever stupid shit Scientology makes you fork over money for. But the second, I believe, cut to the heart of France’s sense of entitlement:

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