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...always maintained her residence here, even though the Capitol is a long flight away in Juneau. It's a perfectly Alaskan lake: still waters ringed by evergreens and saw-toothed peaks, staged beneath a wolf-colored sky. You can just make out Palin's house a stone's throw from the public launch at the Best Western Hotel, by the red and white floatplane on the small dock out front (the governor's husband is a pilot in addition to being an oil worker, commercial fisherman, prior Iron Dog snowmobile endurance race winner, and self-anointed "First Dude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Palin Made Her Name | 8/30/2008 | See Source »

...sagging Obama campaign comes out of here with a fresh start and a clear message: Throw da bums out. It's a theme with a venerable history in American politics, dating back to Jefferson versus Burr in 1800. Take the ones on the inside and put them out, and put the ones on the outside in. Repeat as necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convention: Redefining Change | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...Exactly. Throw da bums out. Makes sense in retrospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convention: Redefining Change | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...within the GOP base could tank McCain's chances of winning. "The eruption would be huge," says one social conservative leader who is waiting nervously to see what McCain does. "The race is too close. There's no need to do something like that. McCain doesn't need to throw a Hail Mary here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecision '08 for McCain's Veep? | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...master of sprung rhythm, he could pack a half-dozen insights into a 100-word sentence on Chuck Jones and the Warner cartoon crew - "Despite the various positions on humor (Tex Avery is a visual surrealist proving nothing is permanent, McKimson is a show-biz satirist with throw-away gags and celebrity spoofs, Friz Freleng is the least contorting, while Jones's specialty, comic character, is unusual for the chopping-up of motion and the surreal imposition: a Robin Hood duck, whose flattened beak springs out with each repeated faux pas as a reminder of the importance of his primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

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