And oh yes. The remark about eating and hunting. Do all people in Alaska eat wolves or just aselected few? Lena

It does make you wonder what people are thinking. But I’ve given up wondering because it’s a fruitless use of brain cells. There are so many, many examples:

According to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, only 24 percent of Americans know that the First Amendment prohibits the establishment of an official religion. But fifty-six percent knew that Paula Abdul is one of three judges on American Idol. And elected officials scored lower than the general public.

According to an Associated Press survey,

About 1 in 4 Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half of Americans can name at least two members of TV’s ‘The Simpsons’

The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just 1 in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms.

Can you spell, “R-o-m-a-n–E-m-p-i-r-e” ??

(Some content above cribbed from Rick Shenkman, Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter, New York Times bestselling author, and associate professor of history at George Mason University.)

And I said I felt it would be a mess if all lame ducks quit before their term was up because, unlike Ms. Palin, who has someone officially to replace her, others in office do not and so there would be the expense of special elections and no one really, being in the office, officially for some period of time. If all lame ducks quit, like she did (even though she’s not a lame duck), we’d have lots and lots of offices not filled until the person could be replaced. It really would be a mess.

Yet she states that she is so very honorable to have quit. Her whole speech was centered around all of the promises she made to the people of Alaska when she was elected and the “fact” that she kept all of those promises. HA! She made a promise to be their Governor and she didn’t keep that promise because the job became difficult (which she brought on herself). And her reasons for quitting are just plain dumb.

Yet there STILL are people who think she’s just the neatest thing. Why don’t those people have the same questions about her that I do? Again I state: What stupid people!

* I think she’s doing a fine job of burying herself. She doesn’t need my help.

* I also think that she will rapidly disappear from the headlines now … especially if we do everything we can to ignore her. (You’re not doing your part, Peggy.)

But Peggy clearly needs to vent a little more. I decided to help her do it.

But, in answer to Peggy’s second question … If more politicians decided to quit like Ms. Palin, I don’t think it would be a mess at all. I think it would be highly beneficial. Just like it was with Ms. Palin.