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Ike. Thank you all for the cards, letters telegrams and electronic mail inquiring how the cats and I braved the storm. Well, Ike landed east of Austin and tore up Galveston and Houston instead. I don’t even think it rained a drop here and no strong winds. Nada. Yesterday was overcast. Today there’s nothing but blue skies. If the breezes stay it might not feel so goddamn hot.

Oh, Sarah. I’m still in that stunned phase that Palin was selected by old man McCain. It really shows his maverickness. Sort of like the maverickness of lying his ass off and not giving a shit if he’s called out on it. Palin was for the bridge to nowhere. She personally lobbied for earmarks. She knows nothing about foreign policy and that visit to Iraq never happened. Nice little wrap up from Mr. Olbermann on her first interview last week. And John McCain got hard questions from the ladies at The View?

The New York Times today has a great article on Governor Palin’s “reforms” today. The media who haven’t been doing their jobs lately do seem to be waking up and starting to be critical of Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin. Then again “real Americans” don’t read the NYT or the Washington Post. Back in the day, when I was a mass communication major I learned in journalism classes that although the national dailies like the Times and Post aren’t read by the masses, almost every editor at smaller newspapers do read the those papers and they can set the tone for the stories that appear locally. That was a long time ago though. Now it doesn’t seem to matter.

It is as if many Americans are willfully ignorant about the world around them. The major broadcast networks have shows about making it through a moving styrofoam wall, or guessing numbers, or outsmarting a grade schooler.

If there is a silver lining to this, Tina Fey on SNL last night.