I’m sure there were more than a few folks out there who expected “Crazy Uncle Joe” Biden to come up with another “clean and articulate” type comment rather sooner than later and, commenting on the Republican VP nominee, the “gorgeous” Sen. Gaffe did not disappoint …

“She’s good looking.”

Well, whatever one may think about Gov. Palin’s apparent complete and utter lack of experience and qualifications, what was Biden thinking?

Ha ha, we don’t need those feminists anyhow, maybe? We’re gonna get the women’s vote anyway (just kidding), maybe?

A couple of reactions to Biden’s remark …

Oh, jeez, here we go already. With the canny, seemingly good-natured-but-really-a-put-down jokes about a female candidate.

The lone female is gone from the Democratic race; they can’t use the old pantsuits laugher anymore. So Joe Biden trotted out the subtly dismissive, isn’t-she-pretty line about you-know-who, the newbie on the Republican side. (Translation: There’s really nothing else to her to comment about, but I won’t say that because I’m not a sexist.)

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“She’s good-looking,” he quipped.

Yeah, really, hold your sides on that one.

Let’s turn that reference around 180-degrees and imagine a female candidate in front of a large audience talking about some, oh, hypothetical male opponent for the vice presidency. “Thirty-six years in the United States Senate,” she says, “And all he’s got to show for it is a beautiful head of hairplugs.”

Real classy, right?

Democrat Joe Biden likes Republican Sarah Palin’s looks

… and …

“There’s a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent,” he said in Toledo, Ohio. Pause for the punch-line. “She’s good looking.” It’s the way he tells ‘em, folks.

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Amid all the kerfuffle over Sarah Palin, it’s worth remembering that one advantage of the pick could be that Joe Biden has a habit of behaving like your slightly embarrassing uncle. Or, as Alex Massie puts it, he’s “the sort of man I’ve met many a time in Irish pubs”.

Joe Biden: Sarah Palin is “good looking”

Enough of our “future.”

Now, back to the future …

Google introduces Chrome

Geez, the last time I saw chrome was back in ‘69 on my Chevy.

A sign of the times, ahhhh …

This year, however, fewer people are ordering the region’s signature dish, driving down lobster prices and making times harder for lobster fishermen already reeling from the high cost of fuel and bait.

“Lobster is a luxury item, and when things are tight, people don’t buy lobster,” said Peter Eaton, a lobsterman from Kennebunkport, Me., who is getting about $3.75 per lobster off the boat, a quarter less than three months ago and about a dollar less than last summer.

While price and demand have hit their lowest point in years, lobster fishermen are hauling in larger catches than ever. Restaurants in New England have been running lobster specials all summer, trying to pass on the lower prices and move lobsters from the tank to the table.

Demand and Price Are Falling for Lobster

Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, there’s a “Rally for Liberty” (aka The Ron Paul Show) … no lobsters speaking as far as we know, but Tucker “Just because you’re castrated and have a fake set of boobs does not make you a woman” Carlson is there.