What a day! As a general rule, I try to stick with commentary and avoid running yet another news-aggregator, but if you're paying attention to the election at all, I have a whole bunch of stuff you've just got to see. There's a video clip after the jump...

...and down at the bottom of the article. d^_^b First up, and mostly unrelated to the title, is a brilliant feminist piece that deals tangentially with Palin. My father forwarded it to me this morning and it is quite possibly the most intellectually honest thing I've read from "the left" in a long, long time. It's over at Salon.

I could say a lot the piece, but the gist is that "feminism" has become as dogmatic as any religion--and perhaps even more so. It paints Palin as a "true feminist" of sorts, though don't expect any endorsement of her politics! It seems increasingly clear that Palin was a great strategic choice for McCain, and therefore probably not his idea. But Palin remains, at heart, a demagogue. Hopefully people see that before they make the mistake of voting for McCain. I admit I was tickled by the vampire analogy; he does seem to "rise from the dead" on a regular basis!

Second, this article over on CNN was interesting. When did Republicans become the people to "demand an apology" over every stupid little thing? It was always the Democrats, in my experience, demanding apologies for racially-insensitive use of the phrase "black hole" or the word "niggardly" or something equally, eye-rollingly ludicrous. When did we become the party of umbrage and outrage and linguistic gotchas!? Especially with phrases John McCain used previously! Is Palin's rhetoric off-limits, now? This apology-demanding is just plain stupid, and (for what it's worth) Huckabee raised himself in my estimation by publicly recognizing that.

But as usual, Jon Stewart takes the cake. Forget lipstick on a pig; in this collection of clips, Stewart doesn't even have to add jokes--these right-wing commentators do the job for him.

Double your pleasure, double your fun; double your standards if it helps your side win. Ideology!? This... is... America! We'd rather just root for the "winning team" than concern ourselves with potential post-game excesses.