The Last Roundup

Ranting, or no, we will continue to see the stories, keep up the discussion and work-- yes, folks, the efforts are just beginning. Here are a few last items:

Lots of folks weighed in on the release yesterday of Sarah Palin's "medical records," which weren't records at all, but rather was simply a doctor's note from Cathy Baldwin-Johnson. Yeah, you're hilarious, Sarah. Where are your records? Alert readers might note that Baldwin Johnson was the one who also allegedly delivered Trig Palin. She is a family practitioner, not an OB/GYN, and the question remains why she would be called on to perform such a tricky delivery of a Down Syndrome child, especially after Palin's 18 hour journey to get back to Wasilla. Andrew Sullivan is still not satisfied-- and neither am I. The truth is still out there. Feel free to email me if you hear more details. Enquiring minds want to know.

We might hope against hope that Palin will disappear from the landscape, but as Tina Fey said in her QVC sketch, "I am not going anywhere...and I'm certainly not going back to Alaska..." Ted Stevens, who appears to have won back his Senate post in Alaska, I'm sure decided to continue his run so they can hold the seat for the GOP. We'll get a circus when the Senate removes Stevens, but more importantly, it means Palin as Governor can appoint his successor. Would she be maverick-ey enough to appoint herself?

John Cusack weighed in yesterday with a really interesting and detailed piece on the direction this election took. "Senator McCain, Governor Palin and assorted surrogates are delusional and breathtakingly corrupt. They disgrace themselves and their country as they lie, smear, slur and write it off as political manner. Yet the creeping truth must frighten them late at night: there is no currency left to buy the big lies."

And a couple more videos that caught my eye in the last day:

• Shay Black's paean to the Great Irish Hope: "There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama."
• And Seal's fabulous rendition of the Sam Cooke classic,"A Change is Gonna Come."