Beginning on a serious note we note the absolutely not to be missed, and always-good Victor Davis Hanson:

If the post-Speech reaction of the talking heads at CNN, PBS and MSBNC, or the op-ed ravings of Gloria Steinem, Maureen Dowd, Eleanor Clift or Sally Quinn are any indication, the Secret Service better enlist the Alaskan National Guard for help ensuring the Alaskan Governor’s safety. [As I noted on Thursday, the level of vitriol makes one wonder if this might not be a very serious concern to keep in mind.]

A beautiful, confident, articulate, independent, accomplished—and conservative—woman apparently has enraged Team Obama, the mainstream media, and the entire American intelligentsia, as if they were collectively hit by a cruise missile aimed from Middle America.

He goes on to catalog just a few of the more prominently shameful double-standards wrought in the past few days by the (take your pick of a term): coastal intelligentsia, liberal elite, leftist mandarins, guardians of feminist orthodoxy, etc. Here’s VDH:

The Geraldine Ferraro Democratic Vice Presidential nominee appointment was an inspired stroke of genius that advanced the cause of feminism; Palin’s was tawdry tokenism.

Edwards was a social reformer brought down by the tabloids; Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is white trash and fair game.

Insulting “small town mayors” and “good looking” women is funny; suggesting that “community organizing” is often a farce is a felony.

Obama’s violation of drug laws with a “little blow” was youthful exuberance; Palin’s husband’s DUI was more proof of a working-class messy family.

Joe Biden bravely continued as Senator after the tragic death of his wife and daughter left his injured young sons with a single parent; Sarah Palin selfishly shorted her children by running for VP and endangered her infants by flying while pregnant.

Criticizing Clinton’s engaging in sex in the oval office and lying about it to the American people were once “the politics of personal destruction”; lying that Sarah Palin might not have been the mother of her 5th child is the mere overreach of the blogs caused by the improper vetting of the McCain campaign.

This all reminds me of the 2000 campaign when the media beat the dead-horse of Bush (Yale BA, Harvard MBA) as the lousy, lazy C-student, when, in fact, Al Gore’s undergraduate record at Harvard was full of C’s, F’s at Vanderbilt Divinity School (dropped out), and C’s at Vanderbilt Law School (dropped out). The point is not that quitting professional schools is necessarily a sign of anything, but rather once again that the media is shown to be bending and inventing facts for their higher purposes of liberal utopianism…

To cool down from that one, and get some good Friday yucks in, check out Sarah Palin ‘Facts’. A sample:

• As head of Alaska’s Nat’l Guard, Sarah Palin taught troops in a training exercise to scare a grenade into not exploding.
• Glasses sales up 150 percent since Sarah palin became nominee.
• The diamonds in Sarah Palin’s earrings were crushed with her very hands.
• She wants to be President but is too kind to cut in front of John McCain, so now we get her for 16 yrs!
• Nothing can stop this sort of thing from taking on a life on its own on the web — except Sarah Palin. (from Jonah Goldberg at NRO)
• Sarah Palin coded the original prototype for Facebook.
• Sarah Palin had the original idea to drop the “e” from Flickr

Perhaps my favorite:

• Sarah Palin is the reason compasses point North.

More here:

• Sarah Palin once bagged a caribou by staring it down until it died.
• Sarah Palin turned down a job as skipper of a Deadliest Catch boat because it wasn’t challenging enough. [OK, a tie for my favorite]
  
• Sarah Palin can divide by zero.

H/T: The Anchoress

UPDATE: OK, creative juices are flowing. This one just came to me:

• Sarah Palin can beat Michael Phelps in the 200 butterfly… in the Bering Sea… in Winter.