Group News Blog, October 24, 2008 Jeff Foxworthy has a venerable routine about why you can’t give rednecks money. They’ll invest the funds in commemorative ceramic plates of NASCAR drivers, he insists. They’ll build a new room onto the trailer “so we don’t have to sleep with Jim’s daddy no more,” he drawls. When he …
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Let Them Wear Valentino
Group News Blog, October 23, 2008 Sarah Palin looking understated in her now-famous $2500 Valentino silk jacket. Photo NY Post, via Huffington Post. The flap over Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe may seem like a petty thing to be paying attention to in the twilight hours of a 20-month campaign. Fashion, according to one view, is …
Mother of the Year
Group News Blog, October 16, 2008 2016: This photo was later discredited by Snopes. But the argument below still stands. The provenance of the above photograph is unknown. It arrived in my mailbox this morning, shorn of context. (For all I know, Piper Palin’s face — and it is her face, I checked — was …