Anyone believing that laughter is indeed the best medicine may have found a margin of relief during Saturday Night Live’s encore satire last night of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, following the anguish induced by her revealing interview earlier this week by CBS News anchor Katie Couric. The interview left many supporters dismayed by the candor of Palin’s often shallow answers, and non-supporters dismayed at the very prospect of such a candidate co-inheriting the disastrous mess left behind by the current White House occupant. For those who missed either the SNL segment or the actual CBS interview, both are posted here.

Salon this week posted a stunning exposé on Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s managerial style while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Of course, it’s anything but the glowing perception one would gleam from the McCain campaign’s patently deceptive ads and talking points. As Gov. Palin’s thickly padded résumé begins to unravel and the electorate begin to see reality rather than her carefully burnished and manipulated persona, expect to see her sudden meteoric fame crash like this week’s stock of a Wall Street investment bank.