Feel free...

Andrew Sullivan comes up with the most dramatic excuse for taking the day off that I have seen in a very long time:

This is only the second time in its nearly 10-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then.
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Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin's unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning -- specifically her fantastic story of her fifth prgnancy -- we feel it's vital that we grapple with the new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else.

There are only three of us.

And we have had the book for less than a day.

Oh my. "grapple", "new data", "complicated" ... For heaven's sake, it's a book, a current biography written in a folksy tone! No charts to study, no heavy foreign policy -- this isn't exactly Winston Churchill's memoirs.

By all means, give yourself permission to spend the day reading a book. Mental health break; come back with the batteries recharged and all that. But enough with the drama! and heavy investigative reporting tone.

Perhaps he just won't stop until he sees a picture of baby Trig emerging from Palin's vagina, and even then, how will we know it wasn't a staged shot??

Much of Andrew's objection to that fifth pregnancy seems to come from the fact that Palin didn't run to the nearest hospital at the first signs of labor. Truth be told, you should stay on your feet and keep active, and not check in to the hospital too soon, where you'll probably soon be waiting horizontally on a bed. (Think gravity... , and time.)

After previous deliveries, I suspect Palin knew her own body well enough, and had faith that she'd be where she needed to be in time for the delivery, to ensure her baby received proper care. What exactly does Sullivan know about the experiences of women in labor, and why is he so obsessed with this woman anyway? His attraction to Levi is understandable, but if he's basing this whole "investigation" on the soon-to-come revelations of a 19-year-old in the know...

I think the Dish might need to take the rest of the week off.

No explanations necessary, fellas. Really.