If you want to get your copy of "Going Rogue" signed by "Serra Paylin," she will be in the area this weekend.
Lisa Ann, the porn star who portrayed "Serra Paylin," in a video whose title I cannot mention here for propriety's sake, will be at Al's Diamond Caberet in Reading this weekend.
Not much else to say about it...
The big news Monday morning, if you gauge news value by what the morning shows waste time on, was someone wrote a book. Well, that someone didn't actually "write" the book. Someone wrote to the book for her and she slapped her name on it.
Now some people are seeing this as a grand achievement, that this person was able to "write" a book without actually "writing" it.
Anyway, the news programs are all over it, treating this person like the second coming of William Faulkner, or maybe Dean Koontz. And because of bulk sales to right-wing Web sites, it's made the best-seller list.
It kind of strikes me as the Coors Light of publishing -- a book for people who don't read, much like that dreck from Colorado is beer for people who don't like beer.
Truly a great moment in American literature.
State Rep. Ron Miller, R-Jacobus, put it this way: "It cast a shadow over the Legislature and the whole state of Pennsylvania."
It must be really bad, considering, for a moment, the performance of our esteemed state Legislature in recent years.
A bunch of Republicans were indicted this week, including former House Speaker John Perzel, R-Philadelphia, for orchestrating a complex scheme for political gain that ultimately cost taxpayers more than $10 million.
And that was on top of the indictments last year of a bunch of Democrats for handing out bonuses to state workers to conduct political business. Also in that investigation, it was revealed that Republicans also handed out bonuses. That scandal, according to reports, wound up costing taxpayers about $3.8 million.
So you can conclude that both parties were corrupt, but apparently, the Republicans were a lot better at it, and better at trying to cover it up since their malfeasance came to light in a non-election year.
Now, this might all smack of political gamesmanship, but it reveals something fundamentally wrong with our elected officials in Harrisburg. They seem to be much more concerned about winning elections, and staying in power, than actually governing the state.
And that's the real shame here.
And the real shame is, too, that nothing will change. Maybe some people will get convicted, maybe not. I would be willing to bet that none of these clowns will wind up in jail.
Meanwhile, it'll be business as usual in Harrisburg.
Much is being made of the historic nature of Tuesday's election. It was historic, but it was fairly predictable. The best candidates won. That they happened to be African-American was not a big deal to voters -- at least the ones I talked to.
Kim Bracey, I think, will be a fine mayor. She certainly has her work cut out for her. Her victory reminded me of the headline the satirical Web site The Onion ran last year when Barack Obama won: "Black man given worst job in the nation."
The most surprising thing that came out of the election is that Chuck Patterson, one of our new judges, is 60 years old. He doesn't look it.
York City will make history on this election day, electing the first black mayor.
Amazing that it took so long for this to happen, but considering York's history with and its troubles reconciling the issues of the past, maybe it should be surprising that it took so long.
York, as you all know, is a very traditional place and by traditional, I mean it takes this town a long time to accept things that are taken for granted elsewhere.
Let's hope this election is step toward getting away from that.
