Your name should be followed by "Motor Speedway"

Tina Fey or Sarah Palin's (sometimes I just get confused) daughter, Bristol, has been catching headlines since her mom popped onto the political scene to add some youth to the "Maverick" campaign. I am not a political person at all. In fact, I don't even vote because I normally don't think that the candidates are worth sitting in the DMV to register. However, I do keep tabs on the stuff just for kicks and giggles. We all know that slightly underaged Bristol (not to be confused with the town in Virginia or the Nascar track) got knocked up and tarnished her mother's otherwise good name. I am not condoning the fact that she is still in high school, obviously not married, and carrying an eskimo's child, but we should all give the girl a break. After all, she does live in Alaska and her parents are always off galavanting on snow mobiles and hunting caribou and what not. At any rate.... this is all old news. Yesterday, every source of media that could form a complete sentence found it necessary to report that Bristol's boyfriend's mom got arrested for running a grocery store of oxycontin in her house. Again, I am not condoning the fact that the woman is wasted on heroin in a pill form... but is this even real news. First of all, Sarah Palin is back in Alaska and not running for any national office. That means that I no longer care how much she spends on clothes or any other worthless information. Second of all, this is about Palin's daughter's baby daddy's mom. That relationship doesn't even get spoken about in most West Virginia mountain community bluegrass jam sessions. I'm all for interesting news that doesn't involve the economy, but this is a little much.