Sarah Palin is a writer, because that’s what unemployed governors do. Sarah Palin’s memoir is titled Going Rogue, because Going Maverick was apparently a tad too derivative. And, good news, readers! The book will be coming out early because Sarah Palin wrote it fast. This is probably either because she is such a great writer, or because it’s going to be a color by numbers book, to ensure that it is enjoyed by the majority of her supporters. Anyway, literature!

Sarah Palin: “Going Rogue” Hits Bookstores Early [The Christian Science Monitor]

For those of you poor assholes with a job, congratulations, you may have made more money last year, especially once we account for inflation and all that boring-ass shit. For those of you without, keep enjoying staycationing in your foreclosures, suckers.

The New York Times has this article about how employed people are motherfucking rolling in it these days, like Richard Pryor in that one movie, and then has some sad metaphor about the unemployed:
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Health Policy Analyst and known moron Sarah Palin has posted written testimony to the New York State Senate Aging (Euthanasia) Committee, and continues to insist that death panels are not imaginary.  Of course, she has gone through the work of reading relevant legislation and extensively footnoted her statement, because intellectual rigor is what she is known for:

A great deal of attention was given to my use of the phrase “death panel” in discussing such rationing.[7] Despite repeated attempts by many in the media to dismiss this phrase as a “myth”, its accuracy has been vindicated.

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Surprise! The unemployment rate has risen again, to 9.7%.  Of course. And,

A broader measure of joblessness rose even more sharply than the headline unemployment rate. An expanded unemployment rate that includes people who have given up looking for a job out of frustration and who are working part time but want a full-time job rose to 16.8 percent, from 16.3 percent.

Of course, 83% of us are still gainfully employed, waiting out the Friday before Labor Day weekend, so that we too can be unemployed, for three days of drunkenness or and yard work.

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Glenn Greenwald has a nice little rant posted on Salon, on meritocracy in America, which he put up as a reaction to the totally awesome news that Jenna Bush, who is now Jenna Hager, will be an NBC political correspondent (Suck it, Meghan McCain!).

Greenwald proposes a nice roundtable, with all the little children of famous people, Russerts, Bushes, McCains, Kristols, in some sort of vortex of nepotistic inanity, talking about how Sonia Sotomayor hasn’t earned her spot on the Supreme Court.  Good Stuff.

It’s Time to Embrace American Royalty [Salon]

Well, one judge just bought himself a ticket to hell, and is bringing the rest of the state down with him.

A judge on Wednesday struck down a 2006 state law that required the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to stress ‘dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the commonwealth.’

On the upside, this will increase accountability by ending the longstanding Kentucky practice of blaming God for bureaucratic incompetency:

Homeland Security officials have been required for three years to credit ‘Almighty God’ in their official reports.

Conservatives in the state will no longer be able to blame God for Kentucky’s terrorist attacks, national disasters, and general shithole nature. However, there is currently no law against blaming the Jews, blacks, gays, Muslims, or liberals. Read more »

Some idiots have proposed that the smart move for Mitt Romney would be to run for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, so that Mitts will poised for Presidential victory in 2012.  This would be just like how his experience as Governor of Massachusetts set the stage for his 2008 victory, which never happened, and  was sadly stolen from him by a shitting dog, his not-magical-enough Mormon underpanties, and his utter unlikability. This dude argues that Republicans would like to gain a Senate seat (It’s True!), and that it should be an easy win since people don’t like Democrats anymore (This may be true in some places, but only a little, and not in Massachusetts.  Plus, even fewer people like Republicans).  Also, Romney’s got name recognition on his side. Of course, that last argument forgets that everybody who knows Romney doesn’t like him. Everybody knows who Dick Cheney is, too, but I’ll bet Massachusetts wouldn’t elect that spiteful geezer, either. Read more »