Rachel Maddow goes through her "Holy Mackarel" stories of the day. So you know Sarah Palin is in there somewhere.

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Wow! They are actually going to allow gay marriage in Iowa, while we are stuck with a bizarre fundamentalist believing Governor who still thinks that "abstinence only" birth control works despite the evidence in her very own home. I never thought I would be jealous of Iowa.

And of course Rachel points out that Sarah Palin's demand for a "do over" of the Senate race between Mark Begich and Ted "got off on a technicality" Stevens is completely ridiculous.

And her question of "what did we have to talk about before Alaska politics" is the same one that many of our Alaska bloggers have been having as well. Only instead of "Alaska politics" we substitute "Sarah Palin".