Seeing as though Palin doesn't read the Juneau Empire, they might want to reconsider the "Sarah Palin: road to the White House" banner they're displaying across the top of their website.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

But that was five colleges and twenty years ago.

Is there even a word for this? A historical reference? Something?

Watching Palin is like discovering an entire new contintent of stupid - it's a new world, stranger and more exotic than anything the human race has known before, with untapped resources of craven idiocy which reach all the way down into the planet's molten core.

In a picture supplied by Sarah Palin's family to the Associated Press, Palin appears with some rather odd reading matter: The magazine of the ultraconservative John Birch Society.