If you haven’t read this today, you must. It’s so clever. Kitty Burns Florey, of Slate, says that there are English teachers ‘who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator’. She takes on some Palinisms.

 Here is one sentence she tackles: ‘I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.’

It’s not only sad, it’s also hilarious. Florey says that ‘the more the diagram is forced to wander around the page, loop back on itself, and generally stretch its capabilities, the more it reveals that the mind that created the sentence is either a richly educated one—with a Proustian grasp of language that pushes the limits of expression—or such an impoverished one that it can produce only hot air, baloney, and twaddle.’

Which interpretation would apply to Palin?

We’re bound to hear many more gems in the early hours of tomorrow morning. I will be up!

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