That’s the latest on Gov. Palin. Katie Couric was asking her about Supreme Court decisions, and apparently, the only Supreme Court case she could come up with was Roe v. Wade.

Unlike Sen. Obama, I’m no ConLaw scholar, and while I worked in a US law firm for several years, I was only assigned to the litigation department for a matter of days when I was a floater. So I’m not particularly knowledgeable about the Supreme Court or its landmark decisions.

Off the top of my head, I was able to think of: Miranda, the case that required arresting law enforcement to advise those being arrested of their rights against self-incrimination (under the Constitution, right?);  Brown v. Board of Education, which forced integration of public schools; and Hustler Magazine v. Robertson, which was immortalized in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt. I suppose if I thought a little harder and longer, I might be able to come up with a few more, but I think those are sufficiently well-known if even a somewhat-informed Canadian knows about them. Right?

Edit: I mean SHIT! we studied stuff like that in high school! don’t they teach American History in Wasilla? I learned it in Philadelphia. She and I must have been in Grade 10 at nearly the same time, since I was a grade ahead…It’s EMBARRASSING. Her history teacher must be mortified.

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The new Katie Couric clip where Katie asked a simple question, “What newspapers and magazines do you read?” (which is a pretty benign question, isn’t it? it’s not a trick, GOTCHA question!!) and at the end of the nonresponsive answer, the whole “you people act like Alaska is another country or something” defensive thing. I don’t think anyone would have been surprised to hear that she doesn’t subscribe to The New York Times and The Atlantic and The Economist and Mother Jones…neither do I, unless my NYT RSS feed counts. But perhaps the Anchorage Daily News? the Juneau daily? the Wasilla weekly? the Seattle Post-Intelligencer? how about Time or Newsweek? Ladies Home Journal or Redbook? The Sporting News? People at the hairdresser, like the rest of us? I bet Alaska even has CABLE TELEVISION! do you suppose she watched CNN, even occasionally, before greatness was thrust upon her? maybe FOX NEWS! LOL

This line has been floating around my head for weeks now, and given the revelation of her cheating on her husband with his business partner, it’s only the truth: Jane, you ignorant slut.