In his article “Did Sarah Palin Top Rush Limbaugh’s Idiotic BP Oil Spill Remarks?” on ecopolitology, Zachary Shahan suggests the possibility that Sarah Palin is a Zen master.
After reading one of Sarah Palin’s latest remarks, my mind has almost gone blank. Perhaps she is actually a Buddhist teacher in disguise and these confusing or nonsensical one-liners she puts out are really Zen kōans geared at bringing more people to enlightenment. Here is the one that almost brought me to enlightenment (from Palin’s Twitter feed): “Extreme Greenies:see now why we push’drill,baby,drill’of known reserves&promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?” Unfortunately, my logical brain stepped in too quickly (or Sarah Palin isn’t actually a Zen teacher).
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