An update from our friends at Glox News.

Under the category of “I am not making this up”: Sarah Palin says she used to cross the border to Canada to get health care.

She now considers this “ironic.”

Okay, so life got a little complicated for me for awhile there, but things are starting to calm down … so hopefully I’ll be able to deal with the signed edition of the Philly posters before too long. (You can see the whole set here.) I have more names on the wait list than I have posters, so those are most likely all spoken for already, but if I do end up with any sets left over I’ll post a note here. In the meantime it looks like they’re starting to sell (unsigned) copies of the posters at pearljam.com (click on North American Tour Posters). The catch is, you have to join the fan club ($20, click on Memberships) to be eligible to purchase them, but if you end up buying the whole set, that’s just an extra five bucks a poster. (I have no financial stake in fan club sales, just posting this for those of you who might be interested.)

Friday edit: Second poster goes on sale at pearljam.com today, next two are up next week.

(Also adding, for TMW fans not familiar with the PJ poster world: these are 18 x 24 silk-screened posters — printing is much more beautiful than standard offset litho.)

Too much crazy.

Wed. edit: same cartoon on Credo’s site, which has a redesigned and very easy-to-navigate archive of my work.

(After Godwin): anyone skeptical of internet triumphalism will inevitably be compared to an old man ranting about the kids on his lawn.

I’m stepping on my own toes a little bit here since this is part of next week’s cartoon, but if you haven’t seen the exchange between the Times’ Public Editor and Brad Friedman, this bit is really quite extraordinary:

Hoyt… [stands] behind it because, as he wrote [emphasis his]: “The story says O’Keefe dressed up as a pimp and trained his hidden camera on Acorn counselors. It does not say he did those two things at the same time.”

I wouldn’t let my six year old kid get away with an excuse that flimsy.

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Still catching up on everything, and just noticed a recent spate of donations from readers. Not entirely sure why, given the frequency with which I’ve been blogging, but I thank you for the implicit support nonetheless.

Here. One note: for personal reasons, I had to dip into the “backup” file this week. The cartoon has never run online or in any of my papers, but it was published in my last compilation — so if you’re one of the dozen or so people who bought that book, it’ll be a rerun for you.

From Bradblog:

Just two days after the Times described the “outlandish” dress of O’Keefe, the Congress of the United States passed legislation to remove federal funding for ACORN. (A federal judge later found the legislation to be “unconstitutional”.)

The Times has so far refused to retract, apologize, and investigate how and why it got the story so incredibly wrong, time and again, even though many have written to the paper’s Public Editor, Clark Hoyt (Public@NYTimes.com) to request that he recommend exactly that. Hoyt had previously chided the paper in his column, for being “slow off the mark” in having waited “nearly a week after the first video was posted” before covering the videos. A special editor was then assigned to devote attention to “issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.”

As Brad notes, the Times engaged in extensive self-criticism for “missing” a story that’s now been revealed as deceitful at minimum. I think it’s fine to have a “special editor” keeping an eye on wingnut concerns, as long as that special editor is given the leeway to point out that 99% of the time, they’re outright wrong if not batshit crazy.

If you feel inspired to send a note to Hoyt, be polite. Flies, honey, vinegar.