reading your email

thousands of people are busy rummaging through sarah palin's email, focused like laser pointers on finding embarrassing material: expressions of crazy egomania or paranoia, symptoms of abject stupidity. from the fact that the stories emerging are things like this ("Cache of e-mails released Friday add vivid new color and fresh details to a complicated public portrait") or this ('Palin emails show disdain for gossip'), i conclude provisionally that they haven't actually found anything. just imagine how disappointed folks must be! imagine that you sent a reporter to alaska (rather a gratuitous trip, since the material was immediately available electronically, but people want stand-ups in front of mountains or datelines that say 'anchorage') and the best you've got is that sarah was surprised to be chosen as mccain's running mate. where are the anti-gay slurs? the moments of holocaust denial? the marital difficulties? the extreme diva bitchery? etc. i expect slate or the daily beast to eventually publish catalogues of split infinitives or something. without something to devastate her again, we've wasted an amazing amount of time, money, and psychic energy.