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Posts tagged sarah palin

I Heart the Obama Kid

The Kid is in. The Great Decider is out–and so are slimy campaign innuendos. I’ll not be sorry to hear the last of the slander of the good Maverick family name. I’ll not be sorry to have less of cowboy-diplomacy-this* and cowboy-foreign-policy-that drop into my inbox with such alarming regularity. And I won’t be surprised if […]

Have Gun Will Travel; or, The Way We Were Before Campaign ‘08

Life must have been easier in the 1950s. Within half an hour, it was possible for a good guy to vanquish a bad guy, be a role model for youngsters, and look good in a holster. 

Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man. 
A knight without armor in a savage land. 
His fast gun for […]

Buffalo Gal; or, Palin’s Civilizing Influence

Let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo is exterminated, as it is the only way to bring lasting peace and allow civilization to advance. –General Philip Sheridan

 Buffalo skulls, mid-1870s, waiting to be ground into fertilizer
Here’s a more recent quote:

“I am especially concerned,”  [Governor Palin] said in a written statement in August 2007, when […]