When President Palin lands the Winter Olympics for Wasilla, the Weekly Standard’s “world headquarters” will erupt in cheers.

• Heinz Field
• Gillette Stadium
• FedExField
• Ford Field
• Qwest Field

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Title: “The Winter of Our Discontent”

Author: John Steinbeck

Rank: 17,768

Blurb: “In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had ‘resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.'”

Review: “Winter is another of those books more easily appreciated at the age of 20 than at 50.”

Customers Also Bought: All the usual Freshman Lit suspects.

Footnote: Contrary to rumor, Disney is not expanding California Adventure to accommodate. But the other rumor is true: It’s time for Stinque Book Chat!

The Winter of Our Discontent [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

I only regret that he didn’t have to suffer through a Bar Mitzvah like the rest of us:

In a stunning report on Saturday, a British newspaper claimed to have uncovered proof that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — notorious among the international community for denying the holocaust — was actually born a Jew.

According to The Telegraph, a high resolution photograph of Ahmadinejad holding up his Iranian identity card, taken just before the 2008 election, reveals that his family changed its name shortly after he was born, renouncing their Jewish faith and adopting Islam.

“A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver,” the UK paper reported.

As you know, if Mom is a Jew when you’re born, it’s a membership card you can’t throw away.

Report: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born a Jew [Raw Story]

Since he came up in the comments:

Good mascots are hard to find these days, but if a college team is in the market, we strongly recommend the Fightin’ Kakapos, for reasons that will become apparent in approximately 47 seconds. Should you be drinking a beer right now during our Stinque Tailgate, we advise you set it down.

When last we left our story, Orly Taitz was ordered to show cause by Friday why she shouldn’t be slapped with a $10,000 fine for insufficiently entertaining Judge Clay Land with her antics.

Her solution? Demand that Judge Land remove himself from the case. Because the Bush-appointed judge is obviously in bed with Barack Obama:

There is some circumstantial evidence that Judge Clay D. Land may have had extrajudicial and ex-parte contacts with the Obama administration, in particular from Attorney General Eric Holder.

Orly refers us to “Exhibit A: Affidavit Regarding Eric Holder’s Visit To Columbus, Georgia.” Which is all there is to Exhibit A — just that title. Oh, she’s good.

Not good enough? Well, how about this:

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