I can't see Russia from my house.

Yesterday, I read that Sarah Palin had created a new political action committee, which she had christened SarahPAC. As many politicians seeking to flex their national muscle have done, Palin intends to use SarahPAC to raise and funnel money to Republican causes, to further build her national profile, and to advocate for issues of personal importance to her such as drilling ("baby, drilling"...sorry, couldn't help myself) in ANWR. She even has a pretty little website for the PAC, which can be found here.

When reading about the website, I had an impish thought. I wondered if anyone had already registered Sarapac.com, because I knew from personal experience during the campaign that many people routinely leave the H off Palin's first name. I googled, and discovered that at least one press release about the PAC had used the SaraPAC misspelling. And lo and behold, the domain name was available! I hastily reserved it, and set it up to autoforward to this here blog while I decided what to do with my new toy.

The autoforward went through at about 6:30 last night, and by midnight I'd gotten 600 hits from bad spellers and wayward typists. I decided I needed to capitalize on this rash of new interest in Sarah Palin, but to use it for good rather than evil. As much as I wanted to put up a nasty screed about Palin's politics or take any of the other many suggestions I received from friends, I knew that I wouldn't feel right about using the site in that manner. Instead, I decided to promote the good causes that this Sara, with no H, believes in. If just a few stupid Palin supporters accidentally donate to NARAL or Sierra Club or the ACLU because of my site, that will be more satisfying than any other option I could think of for the website.

Someday I might do something more with the website, including migrating this here blog to it. Or not, who knows. But in the meantime, go check out SaraPAC.com...if that isn't the errant URL that got you here in the first place, that is.