Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd Palin, after his wife’s successful mayoral bid in 1996

if anything was learned these past 6 months, it was that you are an awful person [too]

We’re moderate, we modernize
till our hell is a good life

(even your friends look worried)

banana fever

The Olive Garden yearning was best expressed by an anxious woman in a big white car who stopped this reporter as he was leaving the new restaurant last week. She rolled down her window and asked if it was open, then looked heartbroken when told that it wasn’t, that the parking lot was simply filled with the vehicles of Olive Garden staff members in training. “I’ve been watching it and marking my calendar until Dec. 11,” she said, her brief hopes for an early Italian dinner quashed.

In the Sioux City Journal, Olive Garden arrives

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The Article: How Obama Reconciles Dueling Views on Economy by David Leonhardt in the New York Times Magazine.

The Text: I. A Broken Economy

As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democratic nomination this week, it is clear that the economic policies of the next president are going to be hugely important. Ever since Wall Street bankers were called back from their vacations last summer to deal with the convulsions in the mortgage market, the economy has been lurching from one crisis to the next. The International Monetary Fund has described the situation as “the largest financial shock since the Great Depression.” The details are too technical for most of us to understand. (They’re too technical for many bankers to understand, which is part of the problem.) But the root cause is simple enough. In some fundamental ways, the American economy has stopped working.