Palin Around

Wasting time today, I stumbled across the Sarah Palin vlog, which is funny, but not nearly so funny as the Sarah Palin blog, which you want to be reading daily, since the band of friends behind it the future vice president works quite hard on it. From the vlog I skipped over to comedienne Sara Benincasa's MTV page, which isn't funny at all, and furthermore suffers from stilted, low production values that makes Slate video look like it was made at Skywalker Ranch. It did remind me, however, that MTV used to be cool—kind of unbelievably cool, impossibly archly cool, for a medium geared toward a mass audience. Defamer wrote a much-deserved eulogy for MTV that had me shaking my head, more in sadness than in anger. Rest in piece, Kabel font.

I'm not sure why tonight's speech by Palin is guaranteed to be the barn-burner that people like Marc Ambinder say it will be, because the speech needs to be a rousing dogwhistle duet that will appeal to both environment-friendly, pro-choice moderate women and the evangelical Christian, social conservative Republican base alike, and near as I can tell that's impossible.