Blake's Think Tank

For the money, I’d say pick up a copy of Bill Simmons‘ “The Book of Basketball,” but if GOP politics is your sort of thing, Sarah Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue,” hits bookstores this Tuesday. (Is she old enough and interesting enough to write a memoir?) It’s pre-sold a  billion copies it seems, and she’s getting more free press than Houston Nutt on Saturdays. Anyway, here’s Michiko Kakutani’s thoughts on the book. According to Jason Tolbert, Ms. Palin will be in Fayetteville in early December.

Conservative columnist David Brooks was asked about Ms. Palin today on “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos in which he called her “a joke.”