Prior to information emerging yesterday that Fairbanks divorce attorney Joe Miller took thousands of dollars in Federal farm subsidies for apparently doing nothing on Kansas farm land while Miller resided in Alaska, a new Rasumussen Poll shows him losing 8 points of support in 18 days, in the first post-Murkowski write-in campaign poll made public.

Watching Chris Wallace’s growing frustration in trying to get a straight answer out of Fairbanks divorce attorney Joe Miller this morning reminded me of Rep. David Guttenberg’s statement about Miller’s shallowness:

I beat this fool when he ran against me in 2004. Miller speaks drivel.

Sarah Palin was in Homer this past weekend, making false claims that she is fishing commercially there, and confronted by and confronting people who don’t hold the half-term governor in very high esteem. Here’s documentation of one of the hilarious exchanges.

On February 2nd, I posted an article at my blog and a diary here, suggesting Palin apparatchik Rebecca Mansour, the writer of most Palin Facebook posts, may be the person behind the Palin attack on Rahm Emanuel. Soon afterward all hell broke loose. I may have then over-reacted.

When Linda Kellen told me last winter that she was going to file an ethics complaint with the State of Alaska about then-Governor Sarah Palin, parading around in personalized gear from the snowmachine manufacturer Arctic Cat, while representing the State as chief executive, I agreed that Linda had an issue.

One year ago, as Alaska’s fledgeling progressive blogging community was assisting one Outside writer after another come to terms with just who John McCain’s running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was, I got a call from one more writer – Max Blumenthal.

Who is Shannyn Moore? She is Alaska’s most courageous, outspoken and mercurial independent commentator. She can build a log cabin or remodel an upscale urban house. She can pilot a limit seiner in the Gulf of Alaska. She can field dress a moose or a bear. She can also field dress a lipstick-encrusted pitbull.

Should soon-to-be-ex-Gov. Sarah Palin’s attorney, Thomas van Flein actually go ahead and sue Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, or any of the rest of the Alaska bloggers or citizen activists for “malicious” whatever, one of the very likely consequences would be a deposition or depositions of the ex-Gov.

Dan Fagan, the Anchorage large-scale Anchorage media figure who questioned Levi Johnston’s apprenticeship qualifications this weekend, has somehow become a left blogosphere icon today. Guess what – he’s a homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, Exxon-loving WATB, who also dislikes Sarah Palin.