She's a Bloody Idiot

Sarah Palin gives a Thanksgiving pardon to a single turkey, then oblivious to the slaughter, stands in front of a turkey beheading operation while being interviewed for three long minutes.

The sanitized MSNBC version (with hilarious MSNBC captioning, like “Gov. Palin Not Realizing Incongruity Of Her Words Versus Her Backdrop.”):



The bloodier raw footage from YouTube:



I bet there are bloody flecks on her coffee cup. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Turkeys Everywhere

Boston Globe: Turkeys take to cities, towns

I saw a turkey on my daily walk yesterday, along with a circling redtail hawk, a kingfisher, and plenty of crows. The turkey had just drunk from the Wachusett Reservoir and was hurrying back to a copse of trees as I came along the path.