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If you’re Sarah Palin, you buy it, wear it, and return it:

“Look, she lives a frugal life,” Mr. McCain said. “She and her family are not wealthy. She and her family were thrust into this, and there was some — and some third of that money is given back. The rest will be donated to charity.”

Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for Ms. Palin, said Sunday that a third of the clothes were returned right after the convention.
- New York Times

There is a difference between mavericks and yahoos. There is at least some implication that a maverick knows what they’re doing and are acting in accordance with their knowledge. A maverick has a method, or a theory. A yahoo, on the other hand, just randomly throws stuff against the wall hoping that something will stick and makes a big fuss about their independent thinking if something does work.

Adam Davidson from the This American Life episodes The Giant Pool of Money, Another Frightening Show About the Economy, and A Better Mousetrap has a new podcast that digs into the current global economic crisis, “Planet Money“. Well worth a listen.

Given the unpredictable nature of life I figured I’d better get voting done now rather than later. If they’re going to pull out an October surprise it’s too late to work on me and the twenty other people I saw at the early voting place. At this point though, it’s difficult to think of what they could do to steal this one in terms of manufactured events, and it’s probably better not to think about it.