COMM 337, 386: Satire on a blog (content advisory for those who are burned out on election stories: the satire is political)

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
-- William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (5.1.7-12).

Here, courtesy of the blog Mudflats: Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics, is a "Palin Talking Point Generator" that gives Gov. Sarah Palin's talking points as a Republican vice presidential candidate the local habitation and name of moose nuggets.

If you're not sure what a moose nugget is, I think you'll figure it out by looking at the picture of the Palin Talking Point Generator. In her discussion of several of Palin's "nuggets," the Mudflats blogger drops metaphors like, uh, tasty little M&Ms.