As we've previously established, Sarah Palin doesn't understand sexism. In an effort to educate her, I attempted to recreate her cover to prove that in no way does being photographed in a jogger's outfit looking all patriotic and multi-tasky constitute actual oppression. Along the way, however, my over-sexed roommate thought it might be better to show her a counter-example--that is, a cover that would have actually objectified her in some way.

"But what would such a cover look like?" We wondered aloud. It would probably show her as submissive rather than strong and centered; the patriotism and technology would probably be sexualized, as would the whole thing; also it might mock her faith to point out her hypocrisy, just for fun good measure. So Sarah, I know you're reading this, and I want you to know that I did this for you, as there is no other reason I would ever allow my roommate to attach fake hair to my head and photograph me for the internet:

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Sarah Palin is so mad at Newsweek. They put her on the cover in a running outfit instead of one of her eleventy billion dollar suits. IT IS SO SEXIST, she facebooked. (And here I thought making rape victims pay for their own rape kits was sexist.)

I'm one of those feministy types who will point out sexist rhetoric on a Kraft macaroni box, and even I'm struggling here. Sure, she's wearing shorts and her stance is more pageant queen-y than serious politician-y, but I'm guessing that's kind of the point of the article. And considering that she holds no official position, a leisure outfit seems fairly appropriate. 

The funny thing is, if they showed her at home baking a pie, she probably wouldn't even understand the inherent sexism. Luckily we know that our Sarah is a Serious Thinking Person, so we can be 100% sure that she's not throwing out baseless accusations to distract us from the headline, which basically calls her a useless wad of suckage sent from hell to destroy us all. 

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Okay, so I have mono, which is usually reserved for horny teenagers who sneak out to neck with each other at Makeout Point or whatever the kids are doing these days to earn those sex bracelets. But even though I can barely keep my eyes open long enough to write this post, I know that there's some relatively noteworthy shit going on that could at least vaguely be related to politics as a general category. For example, there were elections today, elections that will finally tell us whether electing that Muslim fellow was a giant mistake, as purported by this super clever acrostic poem-style bumper sticker: 

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My ex-roomie's new "pad"

Okay kiddos, here’s what’s up:

Item Number Uno: Apologies for lack of fantastic bloggings lately. To make a long story short, I almost got evicted because my roommate was unbalanced and consistently doping herself euphoric with tons of adderall, then coming down, numbing herself to the concepts of “rent” and “basic human kindness,” and frankly it made me in to a crabby hermit. Oopsies!

Anyway, another thing that has been going on is that grad school has been kicking my ass. So in an effort to maintain both Hayley’s Comment and my academic career, the next month is going to be a little different. Don’t worry, I’m still going to be raging against the machine; specifically, the teevee. I am conducting a small research project about cable news and the ways in which certain shows or personalities imply or construct certain realities that we often take for granted.

So in the next few weeks, you can look forward to lots of clips with commentary. Sometimes it might be a little more academic than what I usually post, but I think for those of you with a vested interest in hating Fox News, it will still be fun! Arriba!

See, I told you so. Also, dang, I wish I could be Barack Obama.

In a sick attempt to garner page views now that they're struggling for post-election relevance (aren't we all), Huffington Post is running articles about mythical monsters who run around terrifying people with... that spot between the balls and the ass. Apparently everyone is "flinging Blagojevich taint" all throughout the atmosphere, so watch out. With such transparent innuendo as "roundelay of hackery," "knee-jerking," and "chronic narcolepsy," they're clearly alluding to a sadistic orgy that ended with the guys falling asleep (typical). Lookie, it even has 69 comments! Ha ha, man these people are good. [HuffPost]