Such read the college newsroom sign posted by our managing editor, Marvelous Marv. Marv was known to go apoplectic over a fact error in a story — probably the only real-life example of Tex Avery Eyes we’ve seen.

And since our years as a college journalist just preceded Sarah Palin’s (and just followed John Wooden’s retirement at arch-nemesis UCLA), we particularly enjoyed the latest Going Rogue howler:

perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden.

As the epigram to Chapter Three, “Drill, Baby, Drill,” Palin assigns the following remarks to the Hall of Fame hoops coach:

“Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it — with their lives.”

Only the quote wasn’t by John Wooden. It was written by a Native American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay entitled “Back on the War Ponies,” which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May, Clint Willis, and James W. Loewen.

Marv, wherever you are, pick your eyes off the floor.

Palin’s Latest Rogue Gaffe [HuffPo, via Sully]

grif‧ter [countable]

On her book tour, Sarah Barracuda pretends to be one of the people. But she’s really winging across the country on a private jet.

As much of her entourage, including HarperCollins publicist Tina Andreadis, risked a collective case of White Line Fever, covering more than 3,000 road miles during the book tour’s first week, Sarah Palin herself seems to have remained above it all, apparently cosseted in the luxury of a Gulfstream II 12-passenger jet rented from Universal Jet Aviation of Boca Raton, Florida, at a cost of more than $4,000 per hour.

John Heilemann in New York magazine:

Yet the emerging doubts about Obama among even his most ardent and sensible fans are deeper and more nuanced than that. After 300-plus days in office, the president remains, for many of his supporters, a worryingly indistinct figure. One whose pragmatic sensibility is crystal clear but bedrock convictions are still blurry.

Well, those convictions are only blurry if you keep ignoring items like this:

Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving.

Then again, we’ve had plenty of time to get used to it.

Obama Lost, Obama Found [New York, via Political Wire]

Following Bush-era argument, Obama attorneys push to weaken search protections [Raw Story]

You know that guy who murdered those four police officers in cold blood up in Seattle? Well, guess what. Turns out the suspect was a prisoner in Arkansas, facing some 200 years of prison for various aggravated robberies and assaults until then Governor Mike Huckabee commuted his sentence after just 11 years. Let the finger pointing begin.

Now, given that Huckabee faced similar difficulties last time around with regards to sentence commutations gone wrong, prospects of a 2012 GOP presidential nomination look bleak for Huckabee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUhCPADhuCs

Although the news has been, um, out for a week, it took gay-fearing WND to bring it to our attention:

A popular role-playing combat video game featuring graphic homosexual sex between a man and an elf has hit store shelves just in time for Christmas…

The video cuts to a scene in which the two men are dirty, naked and kissing. They are depicted in various homosexual sex positions, and the clip concludes with the two nestling together and gazing into one another’s eyes.

We presume the creators of “Dragon Age: Origins” are just trying to keep up with the market, given that there must be tons of man/elf slashfic by now featuring Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom. But we’ll let WND do the research.

Players have dirty ‘gay’ sex in hit game [WND]

You could have knocked me over with a feather:

LONDON (AFP) – The government’s chief legal advisor informed then British prime minister Tony Blair in 2002 that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Peter Goldsmith, the Attorney General at the time, wrote to Blair eight months before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, but the premier ignored the advice, the Mail on Sunday claimed.

Who, I ask you, is stupid enough to get conned by George W. Bush?  Bush fucked up everything he ever attempted – how could Blair trust him on Iraq?

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Blogenfreude, June 9:

Buddy of mine here at the office says he went to an autism walk with one of his kids on Sunday.  The guest speaker was … Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was also to lead the walk.

She bailed out 100 yards in, jumped into an SUV, and headed for Yankee Stadium to meet Rudy.

This was before the Iquitarod, so it was just a passing note at the time. But Friday night, Stinquer Original Andrew was among the first to note a curious sequel from a charity “Turkey Trot” in Kennewick, Washington:

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