Villager Mark Halperin has a list of things in Sarah Palin’s “book” – I’m more interested in what’s not in it:

* Don’t look for hefty policy prescriptions.

* Once source who has seen  “Going Rogue” says it does not include an index.  That would give Palin a subtle revenge on the party’s Washington establishment, whose members tend to flip to the back pages and scan for their own names. If they want to know what Sarah Palin has to say about them, they will have to buy the book—and read the whole thing.

More proof she’s just a grifter ….

What’s In Sarah Palin’s Book [Time]

Lindsey Graham, perennial also-ran in the South Carolina Douchebag Standings, can’t catch a break from the local crowd:

Republicans in Charleston County censured their own U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, saying he puts bipartisanship before the party on issues like climate change.

“U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the name of bipartisanship continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of freedom, rule of law, and fiscal conservatism,” according to a resolution passed Monday…

Last week, Graham joined Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and independent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to say they would work with the White House to reach a climate bill that could pass the chamber.

There’s an old line that you had to be to the right of Genghis Khan to please some Republicans. But with Khan now celebrated as a Chinese hero, we may have to update the comparison to the Khan who opposed one-universe government.

US Sen. Lindsey Graham censured by SC county GOP [The State, via Political Wire]

Orly Taitz, unparalleled in her noble effort to overthrow the democratically elected President of the United States, has decided to use the blood of murdered soldiers to spice up her presentation:

Recent terrorist incident at Fort Hood has given this question paramount importance. This order has advocated blind obedience by the members of the military. If someone were to have common sense, brains and strength of character to challenge allegiance of Nidal Malik Hasan in court, after he made numerous anti-American and antimilitary statements, maybe 12 young boys wouldn’t be 6 feet under today, maybe 12 mothers and 12 fathers wouldn’t had their hearts ripped out of their chests and torn apart.

Alas, this isn’t the case where Orly’s facing a $20,000 fine. Because we’d love to see that judge roll the numbers.

Orly Taitz: If the Military Was Smarter, It Could Have Prevented Fort Hood [Washington Independent]

Barnett v. Obama, Motion for Reconsideration [Scribd]

Have we ever mentioned how some stories give us this thrill going up our leg?

One day artificial penis tissue could be grown to help men, new findings in rabbits now suggest.

After implantation with replacement tissue, lab rabbits that once had damaged penises had working organs and could produce offspring…

All rabbits with the bioengineered penises were just as active as normal rabbits — they tried sex within a minute of introduction to females.

Now before you bring on the apocalyptically vulgar with that tantalizing gristle of information, bear in mind that reconstructive penile surgery is for therapeutic purposes only. “Of course,” adds researcher Anthony Atala of Wake Forest, “you cannot control how the technology is used in terms of what patients want.”

Atala need not be so coy. If a Swiss medical school can market an anti-aging cream derived from an aborted fetus, we’re sure Wake Forest will handle its robocock with the utmost delicacy.

Artificial Penis Tissue Proves Promising in Lab Tests [Live Science]

That only took — what — four days?

A Marine reservist armed with a tire iron beat and chased a man he thought was an Arab terrorist and even called 911 to say he was detaining the man, police said.

But the man he assaulted was actually a Greek Orthodox priest visiting from overseas who spoke limited English, police said.

It’s even worse than it sounds. The priest became lost in Tampa while driving to bless another priest Monday afternoon. He finally gave up, pulled into an apartment parking lot, and asked the reservist for help.

“Instead of offering help, Bruce struck the priest on the head with a tire iron,” reports the local rag.

Hey, can’t be too careful. Did we say “the swarthier the better” in this week’s poll? We wish we were joking.

Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist [St. Petersburg Times, via TPM]

Update: Meet the assailant!

Carrie Prejean would like us to know that the “sex tape” that caused her lawyer’s testicles to shrivel and her mother to do a spontaneously uncanny impression of Eric Idle’s Protestant Wife isn’t what you think.

If, that is, you’re thinking of a commercial production for which she received freelance wages and was required to fill out a W-4.

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Blake Hall: GOP Icon and Leader Finally Jailed for Being a Sick Fucking Piece of Shit

Twisted GOP pervert Blake Hall was a stalwart of Republican politics for decades in Idaho, steeped in the party’s traditions – which probably explains why the monstrous freak showed up at some sorry woman’s house and flung nearly dozens of used condoms on her lawn on ten separate occasions this year.

Hall’s GOP credentials weren’t enough to keep him out of jail, however, as the raging Republican pervert bragged eagerly in court Friday about hurling his condoms all over the lady’s lawn, a confession that returned a 15-day jail sentence – about 15 years short of justice but, hey, acting out like a sex-crazed orangutan is OK, probably expected, if you are a Republican, right?

The judge and the victim, a recently married 37-year old woman, didn’t see it that way. In fact, the victim, a former girlfriend of Hall’s, told the court, “I was so tired of being victimized,” the woman said. “It is unimaginable that a 56-year-old would be so deviant.”

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