Rising to the top - on straight B.S.

Everyone who has written too many English papers or gotten away with not paying attention in class and still got a passing grade knows the savior that is the term bullshit.

It's uses are many:

• Man I bullshitted that answer.
• That was pure bullshit.
• I BS'ed my way through that whole class.

As any bullshitter (and I count myself among the best) can tell you, when you resort to this tactic, it's really simple: Know some key words and phrases, throw them together, try to make it sound complicated and be extra confident.  The hope is that whoever is doing the grading is simply too busy to notice.

With that small introduction, I'd like you to consider the ultimate in bullshittin': Sarah Palin.  A woman who has taken the most basic Republican talking points, mixed them up with some down-home, hockey-mom bullshit, and has managed to not only become governor of the great state of Alaska, but the Republican nominee for vice president.

Past presidents have lied, but they did it because they were smart, not to hide their intellectual deficiencies.  (W. never even tried to hide them.)  But watch some videos of Palin and it becomes clear that she's so full of shit it just has to come pouring out of her mouth.

I'm not going to expound on this too much. I'll merely laugh at the obvious comparison.

And yeah, I kind of feel bad for her.  All that new training and those vocab words are just jumbled up in that simple God-fearing brain of hers.  Some people find it endearing.  Most are starting to find it scary.

And that's some real shit.