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Excellent detailed piece on Sarah Palin by journalist Michael Joseph Gross in the October 2010 issue of Vanity Fair …
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“If we are to remain leaders in the green economy, then we have to be relentless in our pursuit of clean energy. We have to constantly evaluate all aspects of our energy footprint. Find opportunities to collaborate and partner with other companies and organizations. And as one of Nike’s long-held business maxims so aptly declares, never stop evolving, especially when it involves doing the right thing.”– Sarah Severn , director of stakeholder mobilization for Nike Inc., August 17, 2010 So much for evolution, NIKE.

Rasmussen is moving Alaska from solid GOP to lean GOP following Joe Miller’s primary defeat of Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Their first poll in the Alaska Senate race (grain of salt as usual) has Miller with just a 6 point lead over Dem Scott McAdams, 50-44. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate and two percent (2%) are undecided. This survey was conducted Tuesday night just hours after incumbent GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski conceded the Republican nomination during a recount of the August 24 primary.

Sarah Palin has secured another victory in the Republican primaries after a
little-known conservative lawyer backed by the former Vice-Presidential
candidate beat the incumbent to claim the nomination for Senate.

Last night, Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski conceded something that had been obvious for a week: She won’t be her party’s nominee this fall. She lost her primary for being insufficiently anti-abortion. (Here’s what that means for a Republican in Alaska: She and her opponent both endorsed a parental notification ballot measure, but he endorsed it harder .) Because there’s no more important issue, and nothing worse, than teenagers having sex.

Though he served as Prime Minister of Japan for a mere two years in the early ’70’s before being driven from power in Nixonian fashion in a Watergate-like scandal, for the next decade and a half Kakuei Tanaka served as Japan’s shadow leader, known forever as The Kingmaker for his uncanny ability to govern Japan from the shadows, often hand-picking who would lead the country by controlling a powerful bloc of legislators.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sen. Lisa Murkowski was booted from office in the Republican primary Tuesday by a little-known conservative lawyer in arguably the biggest political upset of the year. Joe Miller, backed by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express, became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010 amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment. Read More… More on Tax Day Tea Parties

Sarah Haskins, HuffPost Comedy favorite and deeply funny lady, is preggers. Many of you may think that being pregnant brings love and light to life. WRONG. Haskins wants booze, cigarettes, and hate. Luckily her annoyance is hilarious so it doesn’t make you want to switch to a life of abstinence (just a life of condoms). Here’s her talking about her life as an incubator on the Paper Machete Show. LISTEN: Read More… More on Babies

Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Sarah Palin, is to star with David
Hasselhoff and Jersey Shore's The Situation in the new season of Dancing
with the Stars

We’ll see if my schedule allows me to do a compressive ‘end of summer’ box office wrap-up, but since summer 2010 doesn’t officially end until September 3rd, I figure I’ve got time. But for now, here is a rundown of the various scenes, performances, moments, and miscues that defined the summer just past. Because sometimes, discussing the ‘parts’ is more fun than discussing the ‘whole’. I’ll try to avoid divulging plot twists and the like, but consider this a SPOILER WARNING.