CNN is reporting . . .

. . . that Gov. Sarah Palin is the pick. I’m going to wait for John McCain to say so himself before I go bonkers, but . . . yeah.Incidentally, I’ve been talking about Palin searches driving my traffic—well, I have half again as many hits already today as my blog’s previous high, and it’s only 11 am. It looks to me like a lot of this is people who’ve never heard of the woman and are now trying to figure out who she is and where she came from. Some of the highlights:

• Scads of people looking for “Sarah Palin church,” or some variant thereof. I told you, I don’t know anything about that.
• Several people looking for “Sarah Palin Seattle Seahawks,” which just made me laugh. My dream January: John McCain and Sarah Palin sworn in in D.C., and the ‘Hawks in the Super Bowl.
• One person looking for “sara palin firefly.” I have no idea what prompted that search, but it landed them here.
• A number of searches on “Sarah Palin Native American.” That’s her husband’s ancestry, not hers (she was born in Idaho), but I’m not surprised at the interest.
• We have people looking for dirt, with a few searches like “Sarah Palin, flaws” and “Sarah Palin skeletons.” There don’t appear to be any skeletons in her closet; you want to know what there is to know, negatively-speaking, read the CNN story—it’s all there.
• Which reminds me, maybe the person looking for “Palin closet” was looking for the same thing; otherwise, that bewilders me.
• I’ve also seen a bunch of people looking for “Sarah Palin wealthy,” or some variant thereof. Umm, no, she isn’t (though she’s not poor, either).
• Whoever’s looking for “Sarah Palin ACU rating” is going to be disappointed, since I don’t think governors have ACU ratings. Aren’t those calculated from congressional votes?
• Someone wanted to check out Gov. Palin’s law school. Just so you know, she’s not a lawyer.
• My favorite search? “Sarah Palin humorous VP”
• Longest search? “how many children has Gov of Alaska, Sarah Palin who cares for her children who is her husband”