“So why did Palin quit? It had to be one of these options, and definitely not something like an embezzlement scandal. I mean, to embezzle something, wouldn’t you first have to be able to spell it?”
Paul Begala at HuffPo (via sistermarymartha)
The grammar in the statement on her official website is pretty horrifying. Between the heavy-handed use of ellipsis and exclamation points, random capitalization, and poor syntax, I could probably write a book on it. Nonetheless, it was probably transcribed by some member of the staff who sadly doesn’t know any better. Besides, Sarah Palin has a Bachelor’s in journalism. Surely she knows better than that, right? Right?
The statement was indeed “incoherent, bizarre and juvenile,” but what’s even more baffling is that this woman is so self-obsessed that she considers such a verbose and superfluous speech necessary. That verbal diarrhea she spewed at her measly audience was not just a joke; it was a waste of time. Get up, say your piece, and get out. But she felt it necessary to talk about the history of Alaska, basketball, and, of course, her children. As much as she says she’s against it, making an unnecessarily big deal about her resignation and bringing up the attacks on your baby is “politics as usual” in the world of Sarah Palin. Just go away already.
Besides, it doesn’t really matter what you said or how you said it, Sarah Palin, you’re still going to end up next to Jacko on the front cover of US Weekly with rumors of affairs, pregnancy, and who knows what else.
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Fiona Apple- Love Ridden
I want your warm, but it will only make me colder when it’s over… .
WASILLA, Alaska - At an 11:00 a.m. press conference today, Governor Sarah Palin announced that she would not seek a second term as governor. The governor continued, saying that by the end of the month she would resign from the governorship.
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Palin announced that she will transfer power to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell. Parnell will be sworn in during the upcoming governor’s picnic in Fairbanks. An emotionally choked-up Parnell said he plans to keep all state commissioners and continue to pursue a natural gas pipeline.
(via notthatkindagay)
This is the single greatest moment of prime time television of our lifetimes.
I dare any of you to top it.
A remarkably well-preserved fossil of a dinosaur has been analysed by scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
They describe how the fossil’s soft tissues were spared from decay by fine sediments that formed a mineral cast.
Tests have shown that the fossil still holds cell-like structures - but their constituent proteins have decayed.
The team says the cellular structure of the dinosaur’s skin was similar to that of dinosaurs’ modern-day descendants.
A member of the duck-billed hadrosaur family, the fossil was found in North Dakota in the US and has been nicknamed “Dakota”.

A metre-long section of the fossil shows the size of the hadrosaur’s scales
They believe that the dinosaur fell into a watery grave, with little oxygen present to speed along the decay process. Meanwhile, very fine sediments reacted with the soft tissues of the animal, forming a kind of cement.
As a result, the 66 million-year-old fossil still retains some of the organic matter of the original dinosaur, mixed in with the minerals.
The team found that although the proteins that made up the hadrosaur’s skin had degraded, the amino acid building blocks that once made up the proteins were still present.
“We’re looking at the altered products of proteins from the skin of this animal, locked within the three dimensional mineralised skin,” Dr [Phil] Manning [of the University of Manchester] told BBC News.
“You’re looking at cell-like structures; you slice through this and you’re looking at the cell structure of dinosaur skin. That is absolutely gobsmacking.”
(via BBC NEWS)
So exciting!! AHHHH!