Who is Sarah Palin?

This Alaskan blog has good information about McCain's bizarre pick for successor (if elected, and the inevitable happens sometime in the next four years).  Radically conservative for even the incredibly conservative state of Alaska, anti-women's right to choose, anti-gay (anti-gay existance, never mind 'rights') and creationist, embroiled in a scandal that dropped her Alaskan approval rating 23 percentage points, younger and more inexperienced than the opponent who Republicans claim is too inexperienced to be elected.  She's worse in almost every way than Dan Quayle, but probably better spoken, considering her background as a sportscaster and beauty pageant runner-up.  A bizarre cynical choice by a bizarre cynical man who has changed all his "maverick" positions to fall in line with the Party Faithful, and allied himself with those he used to condemn as the "agents of intolerance."    I hope that it's the gift to the Democrats that it appears to be.

( and then I get a little strident--I think it's the Sudofed )

Wyoming

After many weeks, my computer is finally working the way I want it to.  Thanks to Alexis' competence with a laptop, and some new RAM, my computer is back to full brain power.   I have iPhoto, Photoshop, and Firefox all open PLUS iTunes, so I can fix my pictures, post them, and listen to the Savage Lovecast all at the same time.  Doing any one of the three alone is too boring, but all together is perfect, and I can feel like I'm doing something productive as I listen.

Yes, this is still a blog about Urban Nature.  Sorry that the next few pictures are not at all urban, but I think you'll like them anyway.  Whatever you think of Wyoming, much of it is very beautiful.  Here are some shots I took as my dad and I drove through Grand Teton National Park on our way to Jackson.


( More photos including panoramas, and okay, one kind of urban photo )