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...Alphabet Juice is quasi dictionary/glossary of the English language, peppered with literary references, cultural oddities and hilarious musings on why we choose the words we do. TIME talked to Blount about the most literary band in America, why he advises investing $20,000 in mass transit and what Sarah Palin might mean for the future of politics...
...What do you think about Sarah Palin? She's just a fascinating phenomenon. She's not Southern at all, certainly, but she's got guns and God and all that. The main thing is that she's just so good-looking. The camera loves her. Let me just say first, I deplore her politics and her world view, but she's the first sexy woman politician and that's kind of refreshing in a way. People call John F. Kennedy sexy and Obama sexy, but women politicians have tended to have to be unsexy, and she might have opened...
...what exactly is Pentecostalism, and could it really pose a political problem for Palin? Here's a brief TIME primer on the religious tradition that is such a touchy subject for the McCain campaign...
...this Pentecostal association that most concerns and confuses the McCain campaign. As Minnery makes clear, millions of Evangelicals have accepted Palin because of her membership in a Bible church. But there is no denying that mainstream Evangelicals and Pentecostals, while political allies on many social issues, have historically had significant tensions over theological differences. The Evangelicals' swoon for Palin might fade if it turns out that she continues to hold fast to Pentecostal practices and beliefs...
...photos of Sarah Palin here...