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deftly walking the line between fire-eating sideshow attraction and sex symbol for the intelligentsia.
she's also a highly skilled assassin, er, hack writer, covering business and pleasure for a variety of magazines and web sites across the land. (her husband insists she note that her list of clients does include playboy).
be a better writer: power tools for young writers, co-written with the aforementioned husband, won the independent publishers association gold medal for teen/young-adult nonfiction.
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driven to distraction
what the democrats need to be thinking about right now
10.2.08
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As I write this, most Americans (and every pundit on the TV) is focused on the vice presidential debate. I'm going to watch it, but I've got some other stuff stuck in my craw.
First, I think Karl Rove should be congratulated for doing such a fine job lowering expectations for Sarah Palin. Even Dan Quayle -- who we pretty much all thought was clueless -- was subjected to higher expectations than Gov. Palin. Not since Gen. Stockwell has anyone been expected to do so badly. And unlike Stockwell, Gov. Palin is engaging and charming as hell to most Americans. She'd have to totally melt down to blow this one.
And speaking of most Americans, I don't think the left is doing itself any favors focusing on Gov. Palin's flubbing a few questions in public. Ask anyone you see at the grocery store what Supreme Court decision they disagreed with and I'm not sure they could answer either. The Bush Doctrine? You think Joe Six-Pack's up...
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