What can we add?

Rand Paul, who rushed from the operating room Tuesday to give a talk while still in his surgical duds, seems to advocate free-market doctor certification:

Rand Paul’s reputation for marching to his own drummer may extend to his medical career. The GOP Senate candidate is the founder and president of a certifying board for eye doctors, which he appears to have set up as a rival to the existing certification board. But his organization has left little public record, and the legitimacy with which it’s viewed remains unclear at best.

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We still think it’s a bit creepy moving in next door to your book subject, but we won’t let that stop us from enjoying the latest twist:

Sarah Palin’s next-door neighbor sought out author Joe McGinniss as a tenant, McGinniss’s son said.

“No one is stalking anyone,” Joe McGinniss, Jr., a novelist whose father is the non-fiction writer, wrote in response to an email from a Palin supporter who confused his email address and his father’s. (He shared the email with me.) “A woman was renting her house and sought out the author because the Palins had crossed her (owed her money for renovations she had done at their request and never paid her for). So she knew McGinniss was writing the book and found him and offered him the house.”

The neighbor “turned down more lucrative offers from the National Enquirer who wanted the house so they could ‘stalk’ and take pictures, etc… She said no,” he wrote.

There’s still time for the Discovery Channel to rework that Palin reality series. “The Real Housewives of Wasilla” would be appointment television.

Palin neighbor sought author as tenant [Politico]

Fresh on the heels of a silly debate over building a mosque near the WTC site — because, of course, only Christians and Jews died in the towers that morning — comes an even sillier campaign of bus ads giving New Yorkers even more to bitch about:

The ads, sponsored by an organization called Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), direct viewers to refugefromislam.com, a website designed “for people who are thinking of leaving Islam or are leaving Islam and need resources” to protect them from harm.

Practicing Muslims who find the ads offensive should “ignore it,” SIOA leader Pamela Geller told CNN. “It’s not directed to them.”

Fine, fine. And when we buy our LEAVE CHRISTIANITY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE ads, we’re sure everyone will understand.

Ads on NYC buses target those wanting to leave Islam [CNN]

Willie Nelson, 77, has cut off his signature braids, and is now sporting a page-boy cut.  If he announces next week he’s giving up pot, the world will have officially ended.

[Dallas Morning-News]

Virgin wilderness is like virgin daughters: Worthless.

1. Meet the New Neighbor.

Yes, Talibunny didn’t lose a moment yet again nailing herself to a cross over it, but Joe McGinniss moving in next door to write a book about her is a little creepy.

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