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Joe Miller, the likely GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Alaska, comparing a potential third party bid by incumbent U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski to prostitution: From Joe Miller’s twitterstream, captured by Swing State Project Miller’s tweet — which has since been deleted but was captured by James L. at Swing State Project — links to this article at The Daily Caller on the potential of Murkowski leaving the GOP and running as the Libertarian Party’s nominee. No doubt Sarah Palin will be outraged — with a capital R — at Miller’s language.

Assuming that Joe Miller holds onto his narrow lead over Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s GOP senatorial primary, Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express will tout his victory as a sign of their influence. But while they deserve credit for putting him in the spotlight and giving him a chance to win, the thing that really sealed the deal for him wasn’t just their support: it was his absolute opposition to any form of reproductive freedom. As Miller said to the Anchorage Daily News (emphasis added): Elements of Alaska’s right wing have always disliked Murkowski.

Ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is endorsing Republican Sharron Angle in her fight to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, the Daily Caller reports . Chuck Heath, the brother of Palin, signaled to the news site that his sister intends to “actively help” the Tea Party-backed contender in her electoral fight. The Daily Caller writes : “She’s got GUTS and is putting up with more crap than she deserves because the libs don’t know what to do with her and the support she has,” Palin said in a email provided to TheDC by Heath.

We live in the world of work. But whether we hold onto our jobs or not, that world is being taken from us; taken by the blind forces of aging, science, and arithmetic. In the ’70s it was popular to say that work is how you survive, but your life was elsewhere. But that was even wrong then; aside from sleeping, work is how we spend our time and how we identify ourselves. For many of us, the rest of life is squeezed into the margins. And those margins keep shrinking, whether we work in an office or on a road crew.

As long as I live, I’ll never forget the night that Elena Kagan and I got drunk together. It was November 4, 1980, to be exact. OK, before I go much further with this, I should make clear: I’ve never actually met President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, and on the night that we got drunk, I was in Providence, R.I., and she was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Want to know what’s going on in Copenhagen at the United Naitons Climate Change Conference? Want to participate? If you’re not already plugged in, the following links will get you started. And, knowing Kossacks, I’m sure there will be some additional links provided in the comment threads. Here’s the daily program . Virtual participation at this site . Live streaming video when the forum is in session. Here’s Common Dreams . Here’s OneClimate.net . Here’s Heat of the Moment: Dispatches from Copenhagen .

Six days to go until Election Night 2009…. NJ-Gov: New Quinnipiac Poll Gives Corzine Modest Lead In Tuesday’s edition of the Wrap , I noted that with polls emanating out of the Garden State being all over the map, we might get some clarity today when Quinnipiac, whose polling in New Jersey is pretty well respected, gave us their new numbers. Well, those numbers arrived this morning, and they were excellent news for the Democrats.

It is now nearly one week since LettermanGate first burst onto TV screens, front pages and Blackberrys nationwide, and the media remain in unapologetic full-throttle. Having already wrung every drop of dirty dishwater from this odd tale of sex, checks and affections, reporters continue to survey the outer fringes of the story’s seedy landscape, hoping to tap a fresh reservoir of bodice-ripping, scurrilous slime.

After our first attempt at critiquing award show fashion together, Julee Wilson, fashion editor at Real Simple magazine and I decided to join forces again to critique what worked, what didn’t and what threw us for a loop. Full disclosure: this show was so good it was bad. Both guys and gals were in rare form wearing event, age, and body appropriate ensembles that were often flat out dazzling (Neil Patrick Harris in that white jacket anyone?). But alas, this isn’t a laundry list, it’s an edited one and so we restricted ourselves to five outfits or less per category.

After I read Sarah Palin’s Facebook page response to the president’s speech on health care reform, I had to walk away and count to ten — in Russian. You may say, why bother? She’s not relevant. She’s the pin-up girl for crazies. Last night, a man with a gun attempted entry into the Capitol. Rep. Joe Wilson yells, “You Lie”, and teabaggers think it’s porn. The radical right, which celebrates the assassination of Dr. Tiller and protests their children hearing the encouraging words of a black president, love Palin.