George Saunders' "Pastoralia" and "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" are two of the great funny stories of our time. And this week, Saunders wrote a short piece about Sarah Palin in the New Yorker and it is -- to put in decidedly non-New-Yorker terms -- funny as shit. Please read it. The first few paragraphs alone are worth the click....
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/22/080922sh_shouts_saunders