it's almost like being there!!!

 it's almost like being there!!  in fact, it's such a convincing read that the folks in Galveston will be compelled to send relief packages to David Kurtz once they realize how engrossed the ordeal has left him.  send pkgs to DK, 

c/o some fucked up sense of timing, 

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Mother, Fucker 34423

by the way, if you have a minute and want to see why conservative and a good many other americans loathe "elitist" liberals and in fact why liberals have in some cases earned the reputation, check out Andrew Sullivan's (yes, I know he's at least nominally a conservative, but what with his and Josh Marshall's symbiotic crank-yanking about Obama, I consider him a prime example to look to here) recent posts on Sarah Palin, particularly this one. you can just hear the sneering contempt he has for this woman, what with her "sports journalism degree" from, of all places, the University of Idaho.  lord almighty!!! what a gas!!  and here he faults her for noting that she first heard about the surge in Dec 2006 in the news and he pines away for better, tougher questions, like the type Tim Russert's reanimated corpse would pose were it conducting the interview.     a--how else would Sullivan expect a governor-elect of Alaska to hear about a newly developed, highly secretive strategy the Bush administration would began foisting upon the public in earnest late Dec/early Jan.?  this criticism strikes me as unfair.  I'd put money on the fact that most if not all governors (let along governors-elect), whether they be Rs or Ds, heard about the surge like most other Americans (and most priggish bloggers for that matter), from the news.  how the fuck else is she supposed to find out about it?  rather than supporting Sullivan's overwrought and (typically) hyperbolic criticism of Palin as being a pathological liar, her admission that she learned about the surge on the news seems candid and refreshingly truthful.  credit where credit's due, dickslap.  b- on what planet must one be living if they really consider Russert, zombie or no, to be some sort of tenacious muckraker who strikes fear in the hearts of tremulous politicians??!    was he joking?--we can only hope.