not to give sarah palin additional PR...

But I must respond to her idiotic comment about funding and the economy, undoing my personal pledge to not give this woman any more exposure than she deserves. I know, I know.

Palin recently described the National Endowment for the Arts as a huge waste of tax dollars during the current economic climate. I hope the 5+ million people who are employed in the nonprofit arts and culture industry take no offense. And, shoot, should we blithely ignore the millions and millions of dollars in economic activity that the arts generates?

Heavens to Betsy, she's a dumb ass.