Politico:

Sarah Palin’s website sparks White House buzz

Palin rolled out a new website for her PAC on Monday with significantly more content and features, along with a vehicle for Palin to start gathering email addresses and information from her supporters.

The new site, sarahpac.com, is a necessary step if Palin intends to run for president…

Time:

Palin has been unusually low-key of late — she’s not putting herself out there as relentlessly as she did in 2010. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, some distance from the spotlight might be exactly what Palin needs to recover from low approval ratings. Her true believers will be all the more thrilled if and when she launches herself back into the fray for 2012.

Proving there’s never a bad moment for a speculative Sarah Palin linkbait story.

The blogosphere was making merry Monday with this passage from Ross Douhat’s NYT column:

Today, for instance, a family of four making the median income — $94,900 — pays 15 percent in federal taxes. By 2035, under the C.B.O. projection, payroll and income taxes would claim 25 percent of that family’s paycheck.

Apparently that “median income” was about twenty-large high, at least until Mr. Douhat clarified that the CBO estimate “includes employment-based health insurance and the employer’s share of payroll taxes”.

Which is all well and good. Unless, like us, you’re self-employed, in which case those two items may cause uninsured fits of hysterics.

Because, really, we’d love to pay only 15 percent in federal taxes. We’d also love to take in that High Five income, but that’s another issue.

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Caption for this photo: “Roisin McCourt was left speechless after she pulled a tea towel from her tumble dryer to find a brown stain in the shape of Jesus’ face splattered on it.”

Related items listed for this story:

• “Face of Jesus appears on log”
• “Jesus Christ appears on rocking chair”
• “Cancer patient sees Jesus in MRI scan”
• “Top five unexpected appearances of Jesus”
• “Face of Jesus appears on Marmite lid”
• “Face of Jesus appears in naan bread”
• “‘Face of Jesus’ found in a Kit-Kat”

Also mentioned in this story: “Another resident from Coventry, Alex Cotton, last year claimed to see Jesus’ face on her drainpipe.”

Face of Jesus appears on tea towel [Metro UK]

[Variety]

Donald Trump, January 2000: “We must have universal healthcare. I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses.” [Weigel, via Political Wire]

There’s a game being played in the blogosphere that we’ll call When Did Sarah Palin Lose It? The nominees for Moment Lost, working backwards, include the following:

• Her self-pitying response to the Tucson shooting.
• Her self-aggrandizing reality series.
• Her daughter’s self-aggrandizing dance-show appearance.
• The 2010 election, which popped the Teabagger Bubble.

(That last item is also an entry in the When Did Glenn Beck Lose It? game.)

The presumption underlying the game, which we have no interest in contesting, is that Sarah Palin has lost it. The latest evidence — aside from multiple polls showing her trailing the wingnut competition — comes from her weekend appearance in Madison, Wisconsin, which drew an audience of millions hundreds of tens of thousands, hundreds of whom showed up to heckle her, and which you didn’t hear about because nobody is paying attention to her, and did you hear that Trump says Bill Ayers ghostwrote Obama’s book?

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Listen to Michala Petri tear up this Telemann allegro (it’s from a recorder concerto) – go to 2:20 and listen to the entire movement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXLKZ27V_44