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There's something weird about beginning a major party's convention on Labor Day. Aside from, I mean, the fact the the Republican Party is anti-labor and has beaten mercilessly the American worker for about 8 years running.

No, what's weird is that I don't think most Americans watch much TV, read many newspapers, or surf the internet over the holiday weekend. There's anecdotal evidence of this (just about every cable network is running marathons of some sort, a sign that they're not expecting many viewers and they're not going to throw away new programming on those few friendless jerks who are watching). My newspaper today is full of crap, so obviously the publisher didn't think anyone would bother to read it. Most major media-types have taken three days off.

And yet, McCain made his big VP announcement yesterday (travel day), in front of a less-than-full house, I might add. And while that announcement might be getting kicked around a bit by the skeleton crew media who didn't get the weekend off, it's not likely to be remembered by most citizens come Monday. This is bad, because it means that nobody is anticipating Palin's introduction at the convention. She is already returned to the role of the unknown Republican. Given her nothingness as a candidate prior to 24 hours ago, the McCain bozos can't afford to let the public forget about her for an entire long weekend. Then, there is that big-ass hurricane to worry about -- you know, the one that's going to re-destroy the city the Chimp promised, super-duper seriously promised he'd fix three years ago. Not enough spotlight to go around, Sarah, sorry.

This pick continues to baffle me. The more anyone even scratches the surface of Ms. Palin, the more scum sprays forth. Even our lazy, stupid media cannot fail to report on her shortcomings, because as near as I can tell, that's all there is to her. Obama and Biden can safely just ignore her and it will make no difference. And, Jesus Revenge Christ, wait until Hillary Clinton hits the trail and gets after Palin for being a right wing hack and a tool of the patriarchy. Holy shit. She'll wish she'd stayed home with Track and Trig (those are actually the names of two of her kids. Really.).

And hey, one more thing: if she's been such a beast in fighting the oil companies in Alaska, how did her husband land a $120,000 part-time job with BP? That's like Ralph Nader asking Chevy for a free Corvair for the wife and kids.