The Governor of Giant Frightening Beasts

Sorry... I've wanted some excuse to post this picture for days, and I finally decided to just post it cause I want to. Sarah Palin appears here, framed by her giant killer snow crab, star of the Discovery Channel show Ice Road Truckers, and leaning against the bear she accidentally killed earlier that day while hunting moose. Since she knows how to dress moose, she simply applied the same skills, creating this festive bear throw in 12 minutes flat.


Seriously, what is going on in this picture. I am, perhaps, somewhere on the extreme end of people who care about animals given that for the last 7 years I've chosen to only eat fish as a way of not condoning via participation the practices of the meat packing industry in America. Still, while I acknowledge my views may be a little far left... isn't this picture just kinda strange and ominous?

Ok... maybe you're thinking it isn't the only strange and ominous thing about the whole possibility that Sarah Palin could soon be either our VP or our President. Anyway, there it is, the picture I just couldn't help posting.

"I Need To Know if She Really Thinks Dinosaurs Were Here 4,000 Years Ago...

... because she's going to have the nuclear codes." That's only one of the cuttingly direct things Matt Damon says about his alarm at the idea of President Palin (watch below). One of the McCain camp's main lines of attack this summer against Barack Obama has been to paint him as a celebrity. Well, it's funny when actual celebrities have interesting stuff to say about the elections. Thanks to Purple State, for yet again tracking down interesting video the digs a little behind the lines of what is hitting the echo chambers. That is to say that Damon has nothing to say about lipstick.

Further Update! Pigs, Lipstick, "Dogs and Cats Living Together... Mass Hysteria"

Wow oh wow, this stupid lipstick thing has taken on a life of its own. McCain camp dunderheads are all over the cable news stations claiming Obama called Johnny Mac an old fish, and meanwhile somewhere somehow, sanity does occasionally shine through. Media Matters has a nice clip (below) showing one intervention on behalf of sanity.



Meanwhile, McCain is hoping to recruit the cast of Ghostbusters to give the following speech live on Faux News. Unfortunately for them, it turns out Bill Murray has standards.