Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's an up-and-coming Republican leader who could've been an interesting presidential or vice presidential candidate in four or eight years. It is reckless insanity to believe she's ready to step in as commander-in-chief now, particularly to serve a 72-year-old president with health concerns after two bouts with skin cancer and five-and-a-half years' mistreatment as a prisoner of war.

So, I'm picking at my lunch today, CNN comes on: McCain makes his pick at long last.

So, why did I get the strange impression I'm watching Braves Baseball???

...and I can't stop laughing at this!

Remember the WTW story on how many corporations pay no taxes? Well, it sure isn't easy, but the Cato Institute's Chris Edwards found a way to make that sad story an aargument for lowering the corporate tax rate. And I assume he said this with a straight face: "By lowering the U.S. tax rate, you are giving companies less incentive to cheat and move their profits offshore."

Remember the WTW story on how many corporations pay no taxes? Well, it sure isn't easy, but the Cato Institute's Chris Edwards found a way to make that sad story an aargument for lowering the corporate tax rate. And I assume he said this with a straight face: "By lowering the U.S. tax rate, you are giving companies less incentive to cheat and move their profits offshore."

Yeah, Phil Gramm stepped down as McCain's economic advisor after his comment about Americans being whiners, and the recession being psychological.**

**The actual quote is "You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession....We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline."

And here we go again. Uh-huh. Seems our beloved gummint has conclusively proved that WT7, as in World Trade center #7, fell down and went boom due to an aggravated fire, and that "conspiracy nuts" should be all ashamed because we fail to get the joke.

Not the first time for me, of course.

I spent a chunk of yesterday taking phone surveys for my local Democratic Party. The goal was information, not persuasion. Three simple questions: Do you plan on voting for Obama, do you plan on voting for the Democratic candidate for governor in Vermont, and which issues are most important to you as a voter? I come away with two distinct impressions: (1) very few people are home during the day, and (2) an appreciable number of citizens have bought the Republican smears of Barack and Michelle Obama verbatim.

Meanwhile, back at the shamolic economy, courtesy those lovable buffoons known as our government, the word in the wind is that a big US bank is about to implode...

But which one?

After watching the presidential forum at Rick Warren's Saddleback church on Saturday, I was amazed at how complimentary the media has been of John McCain's performance. The media was so kind to McCain after the forum that they missed (or ignored) the biggest jaw-dropper of the night -- his answer to the question of which Supreme Court justices he would not have nominated.

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