Palin, Palin, Palin!

I came back from my Burning Man daze to find out Sarah Palin—who?—had been picked to join McCain on the GOP ticket. Incredible, but the GOP has managed to put together a ticket as laughable and frightening as Bush-Cheney. On that note, a return to politics on this blog.

Last night I watched a Daily Show rerun for the first time in a very long time. I was reminded that Jon Stewart and his team are the brightest and best source for political honesty on television. Check out this piece filmed at the RNC last week that gets at Bristol Palin's... "decision" to keep her baby. It's pretty priceless—



Satire gets to the core of it in ways the mainstream media simply cannot.

In this next video, we get a better idea of just how unversed in foreign policy Palin really is. Here, she makes clear the fact that she doesn't have any idea what the Bush Doctrine, which has pretty much defined our foreign policy since that fateful day precisely 7 years ago, is—



And then Jon sent over this screenshot with the subject line, "this can't be good." It really can't—



With the odds of John McCain dying during his first or second term in office being pretty high, it's frightening to think there could really be a President Palin.