I don't often do this, but I'd like to retract something I wrote yesterday in the immediate rush of relief after Palin's exit from the race. It's been nagging at me all day. I wrote, contrasting Steve Jobs with Sarah Palin:
It's a fitting comparison: achievement versus resentment, creativity versus narcissism, hope versus fear. I know which one will get the bigger headlines tomorrow. And there is some comfort in knowing it will pain her.
I don't retract an ounce of my substantive comparison or my prediction which proved true. But there should be no comfort in the pain of others, even trivial spasms of irrelevance, and such a feeling is really beneath the standards of this blog. Palin is still a human being, and by my own account, an extremely damaged one. Once she has removed herself from power, wishing her pain of any kind is gratuitous, cruel and wrong. I apologize.
The Dish 