Crabby Appleton

Another sure sign that Fall is just around the corner, the Crabapples (Malus) are turning red.

Looking like cherries, you want to just reach up, grab a handfull, and enjoy the goodness.

But unlike cherries, only the birds (and a few bees) would like the flavor. All crabapple fruits are technically edible, though most are bitter tasting. Perhaps Henry David Thoreau's essay "Wild Apples" described the flavor best: "sour enough to set a squirrel's teeth on edge and make a jay scream."

Just like the Crabapples, Sarah Palin isn't as sweet as she looks. NY Times Columnist Maureen Dowd has a few questions for the Vice Presidential Candidate, that she doubt's Charlie Gibson will get to:

1. What kind of budget-cutter makes a show of getting rid of the state plane, then turns around and bills taxpayers for the travel of her husband and kids between Juneau and Wasilla and sticks the state with a per-diem tab to stay in her own home?


2. Why was Sarah for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against the Bridge to Nowhere, and why was she for earmarks before she was against them? And doesn’t all this make her just as big a flip-flopper as John Kerry?


3. What kind of fiscal conservative raises taxes and increases budgets in both her jobs — as mayor and as governor?


4. When the phone rings at 3 a.m., will she call the Wasilla Assembly of God congregation and ask them to pray on a response, as she asked them to pray for a natural gas pipeline?


5. Does she really think Adam, Eve, Satan and the dinosaurs mingled on the earth 5,000 years ago?


6. Why put out a press release about her teenage daughter’s pregnancy and then spend the next few days attacking the press for covering that press release?


7. As Troopergate unfolds here — an inquiry into whether Palin inappropriately fired the commissioner of public safety for refusing to fire her ex-brother-in-law — it raises this question: Who else is on her enemies list and what might she do with the F.B.I.?


8. Does she want a federal ban on trans fat in restaurants and a ban on abortion and Harry Potter? And which books exactly would have landed on the literature bonfire if she had had her way with that Wasilla librarian?


9. Just how is it that Fannie and Freddie have cost taxpayers money (since they haven’t yet)?


10. Does she talk in tongues or just eat caribou tongues?


11. What does she have against polar bears?
    

Read the whole incredible column HERE