The weird turn pro, Part Trois.

As a never-ending source of weirdness, Sarah Palin just keeps providing news-gathering organizations, tabloids, photographers and bloggers with a mother lode of rich comic material.

Twenty years ago, you couldn't have created a credible fictional character like Palin. She moved the goal posts in ways too numerous to list. She leaves Tom Wolfe's most bizarre creations in the dust.

Most of the outrageousness originates with her. And then of course, there's her entourage, chosen or inadvertent. Which brings us to Levi Johnston who should have been by all reckoning a minor player on the stage of Palin's life.

Pat Buchanan gave Todd advice on how to deal with him.

So Levi headed south and is now popping up in the strangest places, as well as saying not very nice though hardly surprising things about Sarah and the rest of the Palins.

Yes, Thompson would have loved this

A very funny piece from Paul Begala, titled 'Sarah Palin Turns Pro'.

I wish Hunter S. Thompson had lived to see this.

As Hunter said, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Sarah Palin makes Mark Foley, the congressman who sent filthy emails to pages look almost normal. She makes David Vitter, the senator who was hanging out with hookers, look almost boring. She makes Larry Craig, caught hitting on a cop in a men's room, look almost stable. She makes John Ensign, the senator who was having an affair with a staffer, look almost humdrum (and compared to the rest of the GOP whack-jobs, he is). And she makes Mark Sanford, the governor with the Latin lover, look positively predictable.

It was an almost impossible mission, but in resigning from office with 17 months to go in her first term, Sarah Palin has made herself the bull goose loony of the GOP.

It continues in like manner.