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Must-read alert: Rebecca Traister of Salon has a paint-peelingly awesome rant about why people should stop feeling sorry for Sarah Palin, which basically boils down to: Palin's a grown woman, and she got herself into it. Oh, and obviously, it's sexist to suggest otherwise. (By the way, Rebecca and I will be taping a segment for BloggingHeads this Friday. Do you think we'll talk about women and the elections? Do you think there's any way her voice is nearly as high-pitched as mine?) [Salon] More »
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Barack Obama's already left Berlin, but the pictures remain. The last time I personally saw the Victory Column, I was 20 and in the midst of Berlin's enormous gay pride parade. Watching young men puke in the bushes while people passed by in front of a stone column was way less impressive than seeing a 20-foot-longpaper maché penis float through the Brandenburg Gate — which makes a better backdrop for everything, really. But the Bush Administration didn't want that backdrop for Obama any more than they probably want to see large penises around Washington, so the Victory Column had to do. Does it really matter what he said? Moe and I say not really, not when we can discuss Rudy Giuliani's Lawsuit-Happy Gilmore, Matthew Yglesias's haters, Michael Savage's stupidity, power, privilege and Duke, SATs, ADHD, Dawson's Creek and James Van Der Beek. (No, I haven't had a bunch of coffee on an empty stomach, why do you ask?) Go read, it's after the jump. More »
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