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Jessica Leigh Lebos

When Jessica Leigh graduated with a degree in creative writing, she figured she'd be slinging lattes for the rest of her life, so she shaved her head, moved into a VW bus and set off for Alaska. Good thing the van broke down just north of San Francisco, because she just hates cold weather. Her baris...

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How Sarah Palin Rallied Pakistan's Feminists

I know, I know, my obsession with her is unhealthy.

My stomach is permanent preztel mode in spite my new habit of popping the strongest probiotics possible, ESPECIALLY since she had the freakin’ gall to call herself a feminist in the same Katie Couric interview where she says she would counsel a 15-year-old to “choose life” if she became pregnant after being raped. 

But at least there’s a silver lining to this black cloud of a lipsticked pit bull (how’s that for mixing metaphors? Must be the acidophilus.): Pakistani women’s rights’ activists have been invigorated by the lascivious behavior of their president, Asif Ali Zardari, when he met with Palin at the UN last week, calling her “gorgeous” and, eyebrows wagging, confiding that now he knows “why the whole of America is crazy about” her.

What a douche. Zardari’s piggy remarks and ogling hold an even bigger sting since he is the widower of the Muslim world’s first female leader, Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated last December. At least he’s been fatwahed.

And so now all we can do it wait for the debate tonight. Maybe she’ll finally reveal herself as the unqualified, ignorant, judgmental, anti-woman nightmare that she is to the whole of America, or all her days of cramming at the McCain compound in Sedona will pay off as she distracts Biden with her folksy speak and beehive. She may be awful, but she’s not stupid, and I’ve got a full container of DanActive ready to go.