Sarah Palin: nasty

As you might have heard, it's not so far off before the election for the President of the great free world and universe etc. (i.e. the United States) is to take place. Candidates are in place, debates are in motion, and the usual kind of tedious - but not as tedious as the UK it must be said - political process is in action.

One particular enlivening star in a world of otherwise lacklustre Republican (ugh) politicos is of course Sarah Palin, the vice-presidential candidate to John McCain's presidency for their party. The more the Poorhouse learns about her, the more bad-film-fictitious the whole event seems. The film "Legally Blonde", as well as being awesome, had a greater credibility to it than the thought of Palin as VP (and perhaps even the president, should McCain who is not far off the average US life expectancy sort of age anyway, plus has his all too often mentioned Vietnam war injuries to contend with) come to a sticky end - and the protagonist was a whole lot more decent too.

You'll remember that just a couple of weeks ago Russia and Georgia were at war. And no, the Poorhouse does not refer to the sexy bikini type war either (Blame the Times, that was distasteful).

Imagine the horror of poor, and somewhat illiterate in a LOLcat way, Jessica B, who lives in the state of Georgia, USA, to hear the news yet not, when the TV was turned off, even be able to see or hear the heavy machinery of war at her door. Thank Goodness Yahoo Answers and its immense army of commenters was there to allay her concerns.