I know that there are a lot of things about Sarah Palin that are extremely disturbing, and this is relatively minor, but for some reason this just made me completely lose my mind.  I recently read Miss Congeniality's do-over of the Katie Couric question about what news sources she read.  First she said she read the New York Times.  OK, we all know that's ridiculous.  But then she said that she also read The Economist.  I lost it.  I read The Economist, it is very high-level (although too right-of-center) and information-packed about the entire world, and I am here to tell you that Sarah Palin has never read The Economist.  In fact, she has never laid eyes on it.  In fact, I am completely certain that she has never even been in a building that has ever even contained a copy of The Economist.  Sarah Palin is not simply unaware of all the information and ideas contained in The Economist.  She is anti-aware of all of it.  Her knowledge of topics covered in The Economist is not just zero, it is an enormous negative number. 

If Sarah Palin entered a room full of people reading The Economist her presence would immediately erase from their memories everything they had ever read in the magazine.  If Sarah Palin ever tried to read a copy of The Economist, they would suddenly fly apart and be pinned to opposite walls of the room by gigantic forces of magnetic repulsion.  Sarah Palin claiming to read The Economist is like Donald Trump claiming to be a Buddhist or Pope Benedict claiming to be an Ultimate Fighting Champion.  It astonishes me how some people can make claims about themselves with a straight face that are not only untrue, but so obviously untrue that everyone can see it.  Paris Hilton is no genius, but she knows enough not to tell people that she's an astrophysicist.  Why can't Sarah Palin be at least as smart as Paris Hilton?