Palin's Speech...

She seemed a little stiff and nervous at first, but then a short way into it she loosened up and seemed natural, even ad-libbing a little. She's a talented speaker, with very good timing, and an equally good sense of the audience. I thought her jabs at Obama were particularly effective.

But my favorite line was this: “I put it on eBay.”

She was referring to the Alaska governor's jet, which she sold, saying that it was over-the-top spending. Besides warming my small-government heart, it made me immediately contrast her with Nancy Pelosi and her insistence on getting the big jet as a privilege of being Speaker of the House. Needless to say, Sarah fared much better in that comparison, on just about every count one could imagine.

I'm headed for sleepy-land with a smile on my face, because I'm beginning to think that The One might not, er, be the one after all...

Headline of the Day...

HURRICANE SARAH HITS ST. PAUL

Drudge Report, referring to Sarah Palin's arrival at the Republican convention site...

The Strange Ways of the Internet...

This morning I looked at my blog's traffic report, and discovered that yesterday the traffic (people looking at my blog) was ten times what it normally is. A little research and I figured out that about 85% of this extra traffic was coming from a single source: Google image searches for "Sarah Palin".

So I tried that image search myself, to see where JamulBlog ranked. I looked through the first 200 images and didn't see any JamulBlog hits. So all that extra traffic came from people paging through more than 10 pages worth of Google image “hits” (for all I know, a lot more!). Every image of Sarah Palin that I have on my blog is copied from some other public source, and I'm pretty sure that I saw all of them on the search hits. So what were these people looking for so diligently?

Strange are the ways of the Internet...