Early morning Palin-oscopy.

There are those time where I just have so many stories about the crazy world of Sarah Palin that I simply do not have time to sit down and write a complete blog post about each of them,  yet they seem relevant or interesting enough that I feel they should be shared with all of you.

So today I thought I would do a little housekeeping and combine these stories into one Sunday morning round up.

The first comes to us from the very funny political blog Hysterical Raisins. Even if the post itself were not a hoot, which it is, I would have to include it simply for their extremely inventive photoshopped poster of Sarah Plain and Michele Bachmann as the iconic sitcom duo of "Laverne & Shirley."

See my poiint?

Have you ever wondered what a conversation between Sarah Palin and the great philosopher Socrates might look like? 

Yeah something like that.

Well the good folks over at Politicususa did, and they have written a post to expound on that ingenious idea right here and it does a very reasonable job of capturing the spirit of the Socratic method as it might apply to somebody with Sarah Palin's mercurial grasp of reality. (By the way I was a philosophy nut when I was in high school, and later in college.  I studied all of the great western philosophers including Descarte, Spinoza, and Plato, as well as many of the eastern philosophers such as Lao Tsu and Miyamoto Musashi. In the end I would have to sum up my experiences with philosophy in much the same way that Steve Martin did when he said "I learned just enough philosophy to screw me up for the rest of my life."  Ain't THAT the truth?)

Next we have Bill Krueger writing for Poynter Online revisiting Palin's Facebook page, and how carefully monitored the comments are to make sure they always reflect positively on Caribou Barbie, as well as how that may help determine the way in which future presidential hopefuls interact with their public.

He took a look at the Facebook pages of some other politicians, from Mitt Romney to Obama, and found that they did not delete the sorts of comments that were pulled from Palin's page. Dickerson said that less than 1 percent of the comments on Obama's page were deleted.

Dickerson told me he is not suggesting that Palin, who has more than 2 million Facebook fans, is guilty of some "huge moral failing." But by deleting so many comments, he argued, Palin is distorting the notion that Facebook can provide a platform for an honest and open give-and-take between public servants and the public.

He said Palin's practice is more like a town hall meeting where friendly questions are planted in the audience -- it looks genuine, but it's not.

And just to end this round up on a humorous note, one of my biggest supporters, and an invaluable resource for this blog, sent me this clip from October 2008, of the incredibly talented John Cleese giving HIS opinion of Sarah Palin.  It is almost two years old, but trust me it is just as relevant today as it was back then. Enjoy.