For the umpteenth time, Babe Ruth calls center field:

The wife of Doug Manchester, the San Diego developer who helped finance the 2008 fight against same-sex marriage in California, has filed for divorce after 43 years of marriage.

Doug’s Catholic, of course. But alas, that $125,000 he spent to defend his marriage (or what remained of it, after the missus left him last October) doesn’t count toward Indulgences.

Still, there’s a silver lining: California beastiality proponents may be putting off a Prop 8 rematch until 2012. Surely Doug can cough up another 125 large by then. After the lawyers get paid.

Manchester’s wife files for divorce [SD Union-Tribune]

Key group to push repeal of Prop. 8 in 2012 [SFGate]

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The nightmare that is was our healthcare system.

You may have heard that former healthcare-reform advocate Glenn Beck is losing advertisers because of some unkind remarks he made about Our Racist President. You may also have heard that Whole Foods is losing customers because its price-gouging, union-busting, competition-averse CEO made some unkind remarks about healthcare reform in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal.

Which suggests an obvious solution. Please, folks, no gunplay in the produce aisle — there’s enough arugula for everyone.

Should we have seen this coming?

WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions…

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, do hereby proclaim April 16, 2008, as: Healthcare Decisions Day in Alaska…

Yes. Yes, we should have.

For ‘Death Panels’ Before She Was Against Them? Palin Endorsed End Of Life Counseling As Governor [Think Progress]

Healthcare Decisions Day [Sarah Palin/Google Cache]

It’s war!

1. Palinize (32 up, 121 down)

To attack a person for his or her conservative values by focusing an inordinate amount of attention on a single example of that person falling short (or being perceived as falling short) of the values they espouse. The term is derived from excessive criticism of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin by the mainstream media and other public figures after it was learned that Palin’s unwed teenage daughter was pregnant.

2. Palinize (110 up, 15 down)

to exaggerate the truth or lie by omission: I palinized my resume.

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Although her speech and tweets are celebrated marvels of free association, America is being asked to believe that Talibunny’s Facebook posts are written in her own hand:

The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled “Advance Care Planning Consultation.” [2] With all due respect, it’s misleading for the President to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients. The issue is the context in which that information is provided and the coercive effect these consultations will have in that context.

What was that? A footnote? One of eleven? Show your notes, Sarah. Until you can prove you birthed your own post, we’re forced to conclude you bought it from a Kenyan term-paper mill.

Concerning the “Death Panels” [Sarah Palin/Facebook]

Did you know that Wednesday was the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions? Neither did we! Funny how everyone overlooked it.

Interrogation Inc.: 2 U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11’s Wake [NYT]

All the Vice President’s Men [Stinque]