OVERRATED
Furor over the "scandalous" $150,000 wardrobe for Sarah Palin and her family, reignited this month by the veep candidate's memoir "Going Rogue." Sputtering about the clothes was hypocritical from the left, which was just scraping for a way to embarrass the sassy Wasilla upstart, and from the right, which shouldn't begrudge its media-genic star whatever she needs to look fabulous on the world stage.
UNDERRATED
Indexes. The absence of an index in Palin's book earned it a Golden Turkey Award for "misadventures in indexing" from the American Society for Indexing. Who knew? The group argues that, without an index, books are useless to historians and fact-checkers -- not to mention the power brokers who scan indexes to see if they're mentioned. "I suppose we'll actually have to read the whole book from now on," lamented former Clinton aide Paul Begala in the Daily Beast.
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