I knew it was in the works – friends said she had been burning the midnight oil, that drafts had gone back and forth between her and the publisher. There were writes and rewrites, arguments over tone and content, and especially about her writing style – she claims to be subconsciously derivative of Hannah Arendt but the publisher wanted something fresh, more in the Sarah Palin style.
Anyway, it finally hit the shelves. I got mine today.
(Forward by Sean Hannity!)
Piece of Mindful 
I guess you didn’t get very far – she was Miss California.
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No no no! You missed entirely. I know who she is. Watch this 48 second clip, and you will, such as, you know, understand.
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Let’s see what’s interesting here:
) Pretty women! Yes! Please put a picture of Miss South Carolina in the icon box of each comment.
) The Left has a fetish for giving IQ tests to their political opponents, but when it is suggested we use such tests for real in hiring and academic tracking we get world record speed back pedaling.
) Both questions asked these contestants carried political baggage, and the expected answer was the usual leftist cant. Now beauty pageants have been subsumed under the Left’s campaign of political correctness. Thank you again, Hollywood.
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Do you really beleive that Prejean could write a book? Or Palin? Or Miss SC?
Please, Fred, a little decorum. We must still be allowed to make fun of morons, despite your penchant for political correctness.
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…your penchant for political correctness.
You are flipping the script here. Are you gaming me? That’s gross.
A lot of books are ghost written/heavily edited. I’m not sure where you draw the line. The first part of Palin’s book seems to have been over written by a ghost writer, but the later parts are better and in her own words. I’m sure Carrie Prejean’s book was totally ghost written, but I imagine she was involved enough to have a worthy imprint on it. John F. Kennedy’s books were ghost written: do we get to make fun of him? Ann Coulter writes her own books and she is hated most of all.
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Oh come on – we’re talking beauty pageant queens here – Prejean, Miss SC, and Palin. Aren’t we entitled to laugh? We’re not talking about people with ideas who lack writing skills – we’re talking people who have neither.
You’re right about JFK – his dad realized that he needed a book to his credit to be a viable candidate for president.
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I’m prickly about criticism of Palin – one of the few self made female politicians in this country.
We have to endure an ersatz IQ debate from the Left who tells us Obama is so smart and Palin is so dumb as if modern administration is beyond the ken of the average person. Nay, we must pray for the return of the Mahdi. Only a superhero can save us. Key Ironman music.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I find it interesting/dismaying that there is an inverse relationship between intelligence and fecundity: above a certain IQ level, women seem to not have children. How smart is this for our future?
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I’m aware of Palin’s inability to come across as knowledgeable in interviews. She’s had plenty of time, and doesn’t appear to have learned much. She’s dangerous in that she is not only uninformed, but doesn’t demonstrate any curiosity, and cannot begin to fathom all that she doesn’t know. She’s a merely walking talking point manifesto.
But I take comfort in the fact that elected politicians serve more as giant reflecting screens that allow us to vent our frustrations every couple of years while the real business of government goes on unimpeded. So Palin, even if she took office, would soon be a traveling road show, replete with AF One and secret service, and would look the part and read her lines, and that would be enough.
Obama is a scholar, Bush was a dummy, but don’t kid yourself – all of the complaining about Bush’s IQ did not hurt him in the least. The American people like people who are dummies, as they are “like” them. Bush appeared to be someone you could have a beer with – it was a carefully crafted image. Every time some snooty Democrat knocked him for being dumb, his popularity rose a point. We are a dumb country.
I worry less about smart women having fewer children than poor uneducated woman having litters.
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I worry less about smart women having fewer children…
The future belongs to those who show up. Must it wear a burka?
I find it interesting/distressing that technological progress brings us the pill and greater wealth for women, and this ushers in extinction level fertility. How are we going to discover warp drive with this kind of dynamic?
“Though shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge”.
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There is a fallacy of some sort at work here – you are projecting a line of decline down to zero. You assume that as people behave now they will continue to behave even as it negatively affects their existence.
Don’t worry about breeding. People know how to do it. Women who hold more cards are more reserved about it, so that incentives for doing so will have to be raised. It will take more than dinner and a movie. But the species will survive.
The other side of that coin is our propensity to over-consume and overuse resources – that is, the poorer the country, the greater the need for children to produce food for the family, and then of courses, the greater the demand for resources. This is the formula for poverty. The answer: Education, infrastructure, division of labor, less breeding.
Oh yeah – and it helps if countries like ours don’t go about invading and bombing them and putting thugs in power and stealing their resources. Just sayin’.
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…you are projecting a line of decline down to zero…
I hear there are still some Gauls wondering around France.
I realize there will (probably) be a remnant population of whatever. But things change in a big political way when the majority becomes a minority. Will California ever balance its budget?
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Now that is unbecoming of you. They say that Hispanics will eventually be a majority – if oyu look at the history of the European immigration, it makes sense. And it doesn’t bother me in the least. It would do you good to be part of a minority. Let them be on top for a while.
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Was that a bit slur-ish of me? I was thinking that CA is practically a Latino country now, (2/3 of kindergartners there are Latino), not that there is anything wrong with that, but few in power there will face the reality that they need to lower their expectations.
And it doesn’t bother me in the least.
I notice you hold forth from enclaves that don’t have the vibrancy of Tijuana.
It would do you good to be part of a minority.
Hahaha. The things you don’t know about me.
Diversity is overrated.
Let them be on top for a while.
I don’t think it is a turn-taking kind of thing. It looks like “our” turn has come and gone.
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I worry less about smart women having fewer children than poor uneducated woman having litters.
I came across this:
“A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, argued controversially that in pre-industrial England the rich replaced the poor demographically, and that this helps explain why England became more “bourgeois” in these years: less violent, thriftier,
more literate, more numerate. Here evidence from a different source, surnames, again shows the takeover of English society by the economically successful between 1600 and 1851, and the disappearance of the criminal and the poor. A man’s economic success in pre-industrial England predicted a permanent increase
of his surname frequency, and hence his gene frequency, by 1851. But the surnames also shows that despite this mechanism, preindustrial England was a society of great social mobility, with no permanent upper class.”
Click to access Clark%20-Surnames.pdf
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