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If this goes anywhere I'm going to do a complete about face and join the right-wing nutjobs in stocking up on ammunition, denouncing the government and whatnot.

My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not -- this was in the '60s -- we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn't that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada.

--Sarah Palin

"Republicans scold Liz Cheney."

If you haven't seen the ad that provoked this reaction, I highly recommend watching it:

The thing I don't get is how everyone is focusing on how shameless she is. Now I'm not saying she isn't shameless: that's already been proven due to her forceful rejection of the truth.

What I'm wondering about that very few people are talking about is simple - what about her and her opinions makes her someone worth putting on TV? Her resume seems to consist simply of her last name, which she inherited from one of the least popular politicians alive. Every job she has ever had could be explained as nepotism, what has she done to stand out in any one of them? She's not particularly insightful or even basically truthful, so why's she on my TV set so often?

I'm a huge Dwayne McDuffie fan, and it's a sin and a shame that I've let this blog go on so long without ever having mentioned him.

The Atlantic has a wonderful interview with McDuffie up, covering a lot of his work in the DC Comics animated universe and his career as a writer for both Marvel and DC Comics.

But the highlight of his work for me was his hand in the creation of the Milestone comics universe. Other than Garth Ennis's recent run on The Punisher, the Milestone lineup was the only time I've been truly excited by reading comics in the last two decades. The fact that they're not around anymore is probably the largest reason I really don't read many comics these days. With Milestone gone, they literally don't make them like they used to. You're all the poorer if you haven't had the chance to read those comics. (Especially this one. Dwayne didn't write that, but it's one of the best single issue comics I've ever read.

Let me plug his work on the absolutely awesome Justice League Unlimited show. "Panic in the Sky" and "Divided We Fall" easily rival Star Trek's "Best of Both Worlds" for best sci-fi story to ever cross the TV screen. And that's not hyperbole. It's that good. Buy the whole show though, it's easily worth the money.

"INTERVIEW: Chomsky Post-Earthquake."

"Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss."

Sounds all well and good, isn't a large part of the problem that nobody's buying? Who's the prospective buyers here?