Last night I watched the Palin acceptance speech, until I had heard enough of the same vague Republican posturing.

Watching her, I thought that technically, she did well. No trip-ups. She looked good, in a sort of dowdy, church lady way.

This morning I went to my car to warm it up to take my daughter to school. The radio came on, very low, on an NPR station. I thought to myself "What is that horrible voice I'm hearing?"

It was Palin. NPR was playing segments from the speech. Without seeing her, only hearing the voice, it seemed like one of those horrible, grating, nagging Aunt Matilda with the judgemental attitude kind of voices.

...Like the voice of some character that would be on the Simpsons.