Itemized

I don't really know what this blog is, which doesn't help you at all I suppose. Ultimately, it's just a collection of things I find interesting, and my interests are varied. Politics, op-ed pieces, long form features, music, movies, television — I'll post it all. It won't all be great, but at the very least, what I post will be interesting. I promise.

Special Needs: A review of Sarah Palin’s Alaska

The nine-part docu-series Sarah Palin’s Alaska, shown late last year on the cable channel TLC, has the atmosphere of a cold war propaganda film.1 It shows the Palin family during the summer of 2010, making happy trips to one pristine Alaskan wilderness area after another—fishing, hunting, kayaking, dogsledding, rock climbing—and taking repeated little swipes at the left. [link]