As we saw last week, Sarah Palin has become dramatically thinner all of a sudden. I wrote about the recent photos of her, noting her shrinking figure and asking what was going on with her. (Sidenote: in an awesome turn of events, Wonkette linked to that story! Hello, Wonkette! I’m a big fan.) Just hours after it seemed like everyone was all “Hey, what IS going on with Palin?” she issued an oddly-worded statement to People Magazine. Palin basically said that she was fine and that she’s working on a book about “fitness and self-discipline.” Which sounds sketchy. Now The Enquirer has the “scoop” on the weirdness that is Palin’s self-discipline book. Basically, it’s just a crack hustle to make money because Palin knows her Fox News contract won’t be renewed?

There’s a budding new fitness guru in town – former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Now that her political career has hit a brick wall, scary-skinny Sarah is hoping to turn an upcoming workout book into a fitness empire, which would include DVDs, workout gear, health food products and even a gym franchise, say sources.

But friends of Palin fear her extreme workout and diet regimen is threatening both her career and her health, as she’s carrying just 93 pounds on her 5-foot-5 frame.

“Sarah’s become a shadow of her former self and it’s really alarming,” a close friend told The Enquirer. “Her cheeks are sunken, her legs are pin-thin, and she has no hips. Her complexion looks leathery and her skin’s hanging off her bones. She’s even developed a turkey neck!”

According to the friend, Palin hatched a plan to launch her own fitness brand after realizing her $3 million Fox News contract as a political commentator probably won’t be renewed.

“Not that long ago, Sarah would never have considered doing something like this. She was hoping to parlay her brief political ascension into a long-range career as a pundit and power broker. Now, Sarah’s desperate to stay in the limelight and make money any way she can. It’s sad… Sarah’s dreams of a fitness empire will never become a reality if she stays a stick figure.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

I had actually forgotten the Fox News thing – that was a big deal around the time of the Republican convention in August. Fox News pulled all of Palin’s appearances on the network halfway through the convention, and media analysts describe Palin’s contract renegotiations as “protracted” – which is media-speak for “Sarah Palin wants Fox News to give her a bucket of money and Fox News wants to shove her out the door.” Palin’s contract expires in January – my guess is that Fox News is waiting to see who wins the presidential election before they decide who they want on-air for the next few years.

As for all of the weight loss stuff… I still have no friggin’ idea. And I’m offended on Katey Sagal’s behalf that you keep comparing these Palin photos to Katey’s Sons of Anarchy character.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I was actually pretty pleased that so many of you commented on the Sarah Palin post yesterday, and that we managed to keep it mostly about superficial things. My intention was not to discuss Palin’s politics whatsoever – I was just startled by these recent photos of her, in which she looked drastically thinner. Most of you agreed with me – she’s lost a lot of weight recently. Some pointed out that her hair style is doing her no favors, and that she seems to have gotten some kind of dental work that’s changed her face. But dental work and new hair doesn’t explain why she’s barely filling out these super-slim jeans.

Well, Sarah Palin reads Celebitchy (maybe?!) and she wants us to STFU. She emailed People Mag to tell them that she’s doing fine, thank you very much, and that she’s even planning to do a book about “fitness and self-discipline.” Er…?

New photos of Sarah Palin looking very thin have caused a stir online, and now the former Alaska governor and 2008 VP nominee tells PEOPLE she’s just fine and is, in fact, working with her family on a new fitness book.

In an email to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Palin – who’s known to treat houseguests to a smorgasbord of homemade treats such as moose chili, chocolate cream pies, pecan pies and lemon meringue pies – wrote, “Our family is writing a book on fitness and self-discipline focusing on where we get our energy and balance as we still eat our beloved homemade comfort foods!”

Palin, 48, says she will discuss the topics in “our unique and motivating book.”

“We promise you what we do works and allows a fulfilling quality of life and sustenance anyone can enjoy,” she adds.

It is unclear if Palin has a contract for the upcoming book or when the work will be published.

[From People]

This feels strange. Like, a strange PR move if it is in fact a PR move. So, Palin was photographed looking really, really skinny all of a sudden, and when various blogs and sites carried the photos, Palin’s first reaction is to email People Mag and describe how she’s going to do a book about fitness and “self-discipline”? Obviously, I doubt the whole “Sarah Palin is sitting there, trying out recipes and dutifully taking notes in some kind of scientific method” thing. I’m sure this book will be ghost-written. But that still doesn’t answer the fundamental question: what’s going on with her? Why does she looks so different so suddenly?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

These are some new photos of former governor Sarah Palin and her daughter Willow in Studio City, California on Sunday. I looked through the photos yesterday, but I couldn’t work up the courage to really write anything about them. My first reaction was actually “Did Sarah Palin get a really bad makeover?” Despite my disagreements with her politics (and I’m studiously attempting to only discuss the superficial here, so play along), I consider Palin an attractive woman, but whatever is going on in these photos is not good. Those highlights look awful. Her clothes look… cheap. And dear God, she’s lost a lot of weight, right? She always had a nice figure. Maybe it’s just the combination of slim-cut jeans and those horrible wedges? She just seems drastically slimmer in these photos, thinner than I’ve ever seen her. What’s going on with her?

I’m assuming Sarah Palin and Willow were in California to support Bristol, who is on the current season of Dancing With the Stars. This photo agency, Fame/Flynet, must have followed Palin around the whole day, because they detail her movements precisely: “Former Governor Sarah Palin spent the day with her daughter Willow in Studio City, California on October 7, 2012. The two stopped in to get facials and manicures at a nail salon, shopped at Kmart and stopped for some lunch at KFC.” That sounds like a really good day except for the Kmart shopping. Surely Gov. Palin can make a go of it at Walmart…? And I would think that KFC would be a great way to ruin a manicure.

Incidentally, Bristol Palin recently commented on Julianne Moore’s Emmy-winning performance as Sarah Palin in the Emmy-winning HBO movie Game Change. Bristol said, “I don’t think she’s a good interpreter of my mom. I think my mom’s way hotter than that. She doesn’t have that accent. It’s all kind of silly. My mom’s awesome.” Far be it from me to tell the Palins their business, but I kind of think they should thank Julianne Moore for bringing some genuine pathos, intelligence, nuance and heart to the “inside story” of the 2008 election. But whatever, it doesn’t really matter.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Everybody has been talking about this HBO movie, Game Change, for months now. We saw a teaser trailer back in December, and now the full-length trailer is out. Game Change is the movie about the 2008 election, only it’s not about how Pres. Obama became Pres. Obama or anything (or is it?), it’s just about the concentrated time frame of mid-August 2008 to November 2008, basically the last two-and-a-half months in the political landscape where EVERYTHING went crazy. And by crazy, I mean Sarah “Barracuda” Palin. Julianne Moore was cast as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, and while I had my doubts about the casting, this trailer has eased my mind a little bit. Not only does Julianne seem to be doing a good-to-stellar job as Palin, Ed Harris really does look like John McCain here. Here’s the trailer:

You know what I like? I like that Julianne (and the film in general) deftly and smartly avoids making Palin into a caricature. Palin, by her own hand and by her opponents‘, can easily be made into a cartoon, a piece of fluff, a comedy bit, a party trick. The film seems to rely heavily on anecdotes that John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (authors of Game Change) compiled from disgruntled McCain staffers post-election. Is the portrait of Palin sympathetic? Probably not. But they haven’t made her into a punch line either.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Back when Bristol Palin debuted her new face earlier this year we heard that she was working on some kind of reality show with her fellow Dancing With The Stars competitor, Kyle Massey, and his brother. The plot was supposed to be Bristol moving to L.A. with the Massey brothers. The Bio channel even made an announcement that they were on board with the show and that it would air in the fall of 2011. Only nothing happened whatsoever with that show, and it never got off the ground. Well Bristol hasn’t given up her dream of becoming a reality star. She’s gunning for a Kardashian-type show centered around her life with her family and boyfriend. Bristol’s mom, the abrasive Sarah Palin, isn’t happy with putting her younger 17 year-old daughter, Willow, on television, but she can’t really object since she’s already shown her family on their own docu-reality show for TLC, Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Meanwhile Sarah’s husband Todd wants his own reality show about snowmobile racing. And of course Sarah is still gunning for more episodes of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the first season of which concluded in January.

The Palin family is embroiled in a war over reality shows, with husband Todd and daughter Bristol blasting “Mama Grizzly” Sarah for promoting her program while failing to fully support their bids, sources tell The Enquirer.

“Sarah is getting flak from both Todd and from Bristol,” said an insider.

Todd’s proposed show about his snowmobile racing was shot down by both Discovery Communications and the A&E Network. And Bristol is struggling to reinvent her scrapped Bio channel reality show, this time under a Kardashian-style format featuring her boyfriend Gino Paoletti and her 17 year-old sister Willow.

“To Sarah’s credit, she helped pitch Todd’s show,” noted the insider. “But he’s still furious. He thinks she didn’t work hard enough because it wasn’t centered around her.

“And Bristol’s upset because Sarah wants to stay out of negotiations for her show. Sarah isn’t thrilled with Willow being involved. But Bristol believes the show will be more marketable with Willow – that they can be the next Kardashian sisters.”

Meanwhile, after Sarah announced in October that she wasn’t going to run for president, on Dec. 19 she hinted that she might. But sources charge it’s just a plot to raise her exposure as she seeks to bring back her own TLC reality show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 9, 2011]

I love how all of Sarah Palin’s family now feels entitled to their own reality shows. There are enough other fascinating reality shows about non-famous people with weird jobs. I truly enjoy Storage Wars on A&E, for instance, and that show is incredibly popular. A quick glance at A&E’s website shows they have a show called Parking Wars, which is about meter maids. I’m not sh*tting you. They also have Shipping Wars, about people who ship stuff, and American Hoggers, about people who catch wild hogs. On Discovery there’s American Chopper, American Guns, Moonshiners and Deadliest Catch. So some Palins are not going to compete, even with snowmobiles, fake hunting and lots of plastic surgery. The days of the Kardashians and the family reality show are hopefully grinding to a halt.

Bristol Palin is shown on 8-18-11 filming scenes for the reality show that never was. Credit: Pacific Coast News

Here is the teaser trailer for Game Change, the HBO film about the 2008 presidential campaign… only the film’s plot is just about the build-up of bringing Sarah Palin in as the VP candidate, and then the final months of the campaign? I think so. Ed Harris stars as John McCain which… is actually better than it sounds. My first reactions was, “John McCain WISHES.” But Ed Harris is actually doing a lot of McCain’s mannerisms and expressions, and the little John McCain-wiglet kind of works on Harris. You can also see Woody Harrelson as McCain’s advisor (and head of day-to-day operations) Steve Schmidt. Other actors in the film: Ron Livingston, Jamey Sheridan (fresh from Homeland!), and Sarah Paulson.

And of course, Julianne Moore stars as Sarah Palin. Now… I like Julianne a great deal. I think she’s a very talented lady, but I don’t understand why Julianne keeps getting handed all of these parts that demand heavy accent work. Julianne’s Boston accent on 30 Rock was grating, and now she’s doing Palin’s weird Minnesotan/Alaskan accent, and it just feels… weird. It’s off somehow. Julianne’s weakness as an actress = regional accents. Now we know.

Also… I get that this film is based on the “definitive” book about the 2008 election, Game Change (by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann), but I still have serious doubts as to the “official record” of how Palin was selected as McCain’s running mate. I really don’t think it was Schmidt as some kind of political Svengali, yammering on about “change” and he and McCain deciding to pick any woman. There’s enough evidence to suggest that McCain was listening to people outside of his campaign, and that his advisors were actually really upset that McCain had chosen Palin with so little vetting or background.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday we covered some excerpts from Levi Johnston’s new book, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs. I pretty much skimmed the whole book, and I mentioned that I was impressed by how well it was written, meaning there’s no way that Levi had penned a single sentence. He does credit his ghost writers in the epilogue, and mentions that he wanted to put their names on the book jacket, but that they declined. It’s easy to understand why they would prefer not to be associated with this memoir in any way.

Yesterday Levi was on the Wendy Williams show to promote the book. He came across much better than he has in the past. He seemed just somewhat stupid and dull as opposed to completely uninteresting and slow. He’s learning how to handle the spotlight and has been working on his interview skills.

When describing the reasons why he and Bristol broke up for the second time, Levi said that the media claimed he had gotten a girl pregnant that he hadn’t seen in years. Levi said to Wendy, “It went downhill real quick. Apparently I got someone else pregnant that I hadn’t seen in five years… I did not get anyone pregnant.”

Levi is talking about this National Enquirer report that came out in late July of last year, after his second engagement to Bristol, claiming he had gotten a girl named Lanesia Garcia pregnant. Only in his book he openly admits sleeping with Lanesia, an old girlfriend, in January of 2010, he just says he’s not the baby’s father. That’s about six months prior, not five years.

Levi’s ghostwriters wrote:

In January of 2010, more than a year after Tripp was born and I’d moved out of the Palin house, I did hook up with Lanesia for one short night. Six months later, the international media community was announcing that Lanesia was pregnant with my child. She announced that she was barely pregnant – and the father of the child was her longtime boyfriend, and she had no f*cking idea why anyone was connecting her to Levi Johnston at this point.

She called me and said I needed to clean up this mess.

A second reason why this baby could not be mine, as if another reason were needed, was that I’d used protection.

[From Levi Johnston's memoir Deer in the Headlights]

He totally lied and he did sleep with that girl, he just wasn’t the one who got her pregnant.

Oh and some of that other stuff he said in the interview (video above) about how Bristol was jealous of her mom’s pregnancy was not in the book at all. The way it was described in the book, Bristol planned to get pregnant after her mom did, but it wasn’t out of envy at all. It was more like Bristol was influenced by her mom’s pregnancy and her new baby brother, not that Bristol wanted to upstage Sarah.

I guess I can’t blame Levi for forgetting what’s in his own memoir since I doubt he’s even read the whole thing.

Levi is shown out in NY yesterday. Credit: WENN.com

Imagine my surprise (or mild amusement really) when I found an ad for Levi Johnston’s new book on one of our favorite sites, D-Listed. That’s the first time I’ve heard that the book Levi has threatened to release for months is actually out. Levi’s new memoir Deer in The Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs has been published by Simon & Schuster. Judging from the passages I skimmed, the book is highly readable, interesting and relatable. They got Levi an incredibly competent ghost writer who makes him sound both coherent and self aware to a degree that is in no way supported by the dull, halting interviews he’s given to date. Levi is a high school dropout who posed for Playgirl and at one point wanted to run for mayor of his Alaska town. In an interview on “The View” announcing his candidacy (which never materialized), he was incapable of reciting a single reason why anyone should vote him. So it’s laughable to imagine Levi writing this book in any fashion since it actually flows well and describes things simply and vividly. Here’s an example in which he talks about his family. Levi’s love of hunting and the outdoors is a common theme throughout:

My male relatives… were ballsy, somewhat crazy, and still are. Not in a Deliverance kind of way though. They wouldn’t think twice about running a wild river in a canoe, catching air on a snow machine, jumping four-wheelers, or flying off hilltops 120 feet downslope. Those same men had unending patience as they taught us boys what we needed to know to be out there, on our own and safe…

I know who I am from hunting. It’s my identity – a world and an activity I know as well as anyone. Better. It’s a place where I can survive.

Kodiak brown-bear country is different from the heavily treed home of black bears need Wasilla. Kodiak land is mushy, swampy in the valleys, with adler that has been stunted by the wind, the cold and the fog. The saplings are ten, twelved feet high. Sometimes you see the tops of these thickets trembling as a bear pushes through, on the move. You guess the direction and cut that bear off or you’ll lose it.

A snow machine? Is that what they’re calling snowmobiles now? (It seems to be the case as they’re called snow machines consistently.) The passages in this book are evocative and interesting. I actually enjoyed reading some of this because it described nature and hunting in a way that changed my perspective. Levi had some incredible stories to tell, like when he nearly got sucked into a whirlpool when he was canoeing with his uncle. They had to wade through ice cold water for hours at night before they made it the ten miles back to camp.

As for what people are really interested in, The Palins, Levi didn’t say much that we haven’t already heard from him, but he did say it in a convincing way. He described a home life in which mom Sarah was in her own world, separate from her husband and the kids. Her husband Todd did his own thing, hanging out in his man cave and sleeping on the couch at night. Here’s the part where Levi describes that:

Claims Sarah and Todd were estranged, Sarah ignored her kids
The first time I went snow machining with [Todd], he surprised me. At home he is like a shadow. Always in the garage, doing something. Away from home, Todd was a totally different guy. He opened up and we had fun together. Todd and I got home one night and he walked back to his house, past Sarah, who was on her way to her bedroom with her typical dinner, a Diet Coke and chips. They didn’t say a word to each other, yet Todd’s face darkened. He went back to his usual grumpy self and headed for his hidey-hole, the garage, where he could be alone…

For the most part, Sarah was as distant as Todd. She gave out hugs and handshakes to the public, but in private, she didn’t reach out to her kids. If she was in one of her hyperjoyful moods, they she might grab one of them as they went by. Otherwise, she left them alone.

If they wanted something, she’d give in, always. It wasn’t important to her to get her own way about uninmportant stuff – things she wasn’t all that interested in.

Most days, by the time Bristol and Willow got home, Sarah was out of sight. She’d be in her first-floor, cavernlike bedroom with its big walk-in closet – that might have been a huge master bedroom, but it was all hers, not Todd’s, although he kept his clothes in there. He spent his time in his workshop in the garage, with overnights in the living room. Still dressed…

I was spending more time with her family than she did…

I never – I mean never – saw Sarah and Todd touch or kiss, other than for a photo op. They barely even talked to each other.

Levi (his ghost writer) was really sweet and gushing when he described how he fell in love with Bristol and spent time with her dreaming about their futures. He didn’t try to nullify their past at all. At this point I just started skimming looking for the good parts, and I found a few but there are probably more.

On how Levi and Bristol told Bristol’s parents about Bristol’s pregnancy
Todd, who had been watching Sarah first, and then me, was in that place where some quiet men go. Look out.

Do you think I’m going to support Bristol and your baby? His voice was loud. Suddenly he wasn’t so quiet after all.

Well, no.

You need to quit school, get a job.

Sarah picked up. You guys are going to have to get married.

Maybe. After we graduate, I was thinking. Had been thinking.

This was the only time she mentioned marriage – until, that is, the McCain team would make it an issue.

Sarah Palin lied when she said she told Bristol she had a choice to abort
There was no talk of abortion. Sarah would later say that she told Bristol it was her choice and her daughter made the right one… That’s total fiction, although Sarah might be deluding herself or just doesn’t know the truth. Bristol got pregnant on purpose. She had finally come clean, admitted to me that she hadn’t been taking her birth control pills. We were having a baby, end of story.

Levi’s ghost writer calls Sarah out a few more times in the book. He mentions that Sarah called her baby Trigg retarded in a joking way (we’ve heard that before), that she lied when she claimed that he purposefully wasn’t there for the birth of his son, Tripp (he made it there as soon as possible), and that she got livid when he tried to tell her that there wasn’t any difference between questioning Obama’s birthplace and people questioning whether Trigg was actually her son. Levi calls out Bristol, too, for fibbing to the press about her plastic surgery. He does it from his perspective without directly calling her a liar.

On Bristol’s plastic surgery (prior to her new face)
During the time we were together, before she was pregnant, Bristol had had her double chin reduced… Then she decided she needed to get her breasts reduced.

On Bristol’s new face not being necessary
Bristol has had more cosmetic surgery; she showed off her changed features a week before my twenty-first birthday. She told the media about the braces she used to wear. I remember those endless orthodontist’s appointments. I never knew it wasn’t all taken care of – the alignment issue she pointed out as the reason for her reshaped jaw. I did know she had continued to complain after the lipo about the remaining roundness of her cheeks…

There’s a lot in there about the custody battle for Tripp, about how Sarah and Bristol tried to keep Levi from his son and tried to block his visitation at every turn. Here’s another segment I’d like to share, about how Sarah was a big flirt. I doubt she was into Levi though.

Sarah Palin regularly flirted with other women’s husbands
All along my female friends had been trying to convince me that Sarah had had a cougar crush on me and was jealous of Bristol once we had a child together…

It’s a classic situation, my female friends told me, while their menfolk rolled around on the floor cracking up.

What did come to mind was how Sarah behaved with men her own age. I remember her standing next to my dad in the stands in the hockey rink in Fairbanks, rubbing the back of his neck. He wasn’t the only guy she was flirty with. I thought my mother would have a stroke. What could she say? Get your paws off my property?

Sarah could care less as she linked arms with another father and walked away. It was her mojo, her strength. Her sexuality. It was pretty powerful.

There’s more I’d love to repeat, and I’ll include some bullet points below.

Sarah Palin just welcomed her second grandchild, from her 22 year-old son, Track, and his bride of two and a half months, Britta Hanson, 21. So this 47 year-old abstinence advocate now has two grandchildren from two out of her five kids (the only two that are of age) that were conceived out of wedlock. Congratulations are in order!

Sarah Palin has become a grandmother for the second time, according to reporter Joe McGinniss, who is writing a book on the former vice presidential candidate.

Palin’s eldest son, Track, and his wife, Britta, welcomed a baby girl named Kyla Grace Palin on Sunday night, reports McGinniss, who moved next door to the Palins’s Alaska home in 2010 to gain better access to the family.

In May, it was announced that the high school sweethearts were married. The Palin family never officially confirmed Britta’s pregnancy, though pictures of her baby shower surfaced on Facebook.

The former Britta Hanson was once roommates with her husband’s younger sister, Bristol, in Anchorage, and served as an executive secretary in the governor’s office, beginning when her mother-in-law was governor of Alaska. She is currently a nursing student at the University of Alaska.

Track Palin, an Army Reservist, has said he plans to study at the University of Alaska after the commercial fishing season.

Neither Todd Palin, nor a rep for the Palin family responded to requests for comment.

[From People]

This story is confusing to me. People regularly runs official stories from the Palin camp, so it seems strange that they’re running this story based on details from the next door neighbor. I looked up this biographer neighbor guy, Joe McGinniss, and Palin once bitched about him moving next to her. She wrote on Facebook “Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?” McGinniss called Palin’s response “the same kind of tactic that the Nazi troopers used in Germany in the ’30s,” and she of course blurted something back because she never ignores any criticism, however absurd. So it’s safe to assume that McGinniss isn’t speaking on behalf of the Palins here.

Radar got a confirmation on the baby’s name and sex from Britta’s mother, the baby’s other grandmother. She said “Kyla Grace is great. She’s beautiful.” That’s sweet.

I shouldn’t focus much on Palin at this point. She’s not as relevant now and she seems to have been eclipsed by the competition anyway.

Sarah Palin photos credit: WENN

I will admit to barely having a passing interest in this story, but two of you e-mailed it to me saying we’d called it earlier, so there must be interest in it. (Thank you to Bellaluna and xxodettexx!) Sarah Palin’s oldest son, Track, 22, married his high school sweetheart in a small private ceremony two months ago. The couple announced that they would have a larger ski party weekend this winter so that more friends and family could celebrate with them. I guessed that Track’s new bride, Britta Hanson, 21, might be pregnant due to the quickie wedding but thought that a ski weekend in seven months didn’t make sense given the timeline. Like why would they plan a ski trip right after she’d had the baby? Maybe because the baby will be a few months old by then.

One of Britta’s friends posted a photo of her on Facebook where she’s sitting on a bed surrounded by presents. [via Gawker] It looks like a baby shower and Britta looks at least seven months along, so it was a shotgun wedding. At least one of Sarah Palin’s grandchildren will be born into wedlock, since that seems to matter to her.

Sarah Palin is going to be a grandmother again. Eldest child Track Palin married high school sweetheart Britta Hanson two months ago, and now we hear that Britta is pregnant. The picture above of “Britta Pie,” which was posted on a Wasilla friend’s Facebook wall, confirms the news she’s expecting. Britta looks to be several months along—perhaps more than two months?

Track and Britta married at the ages of 22 and 21, at a ceremony on their favorite ski slope. Wedding pictures and a jubilant “joint statement” appeared in People magazine. Track is an Army reservist who served in Iraq; Britta is the daughter of a minister who was studying to be a nurse as of last year.

Britta’s friends responded to the Facebook pictures with elation. But given the timing of Britta’s pregnancy, the happy couple may want to tell Sarah Palin to shut up the next time she champions abstinence-only education or Bristol sermonizes against extramarital sex, lest the conception of another Palin grandchild and the rationale behind another well-publicized Palin marriage fall into question.

[From Gawker]

Now comes the business of naming that baby, as we speculated about in the last story. Sarah has a three year-old son named Trig and her grandson, Tripp, is two and a half. You know they’re going to name that child something that starts with “Tr” if it’s a boy. I suggested Truth nd some of your name ideas included: Trigger, Trapp, Trollop, Tramp, Trance, Trail, and Truce. That last one would be ironic, which would be lost to Sarah Palin. I’m kind of loving that she’s a two time grandmother at 47. There’s got to be something at least slightly humbling about that, although her single response to every uncomfortable emotion is “offended.” Congratulations to these kids though.

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