A little more than a year after John McCain threw conservative debutant Sarah Palin her coming out party, the country still finds itself with a chronic case of Wasilla Fever!

Just take Levi Johnston. Not only is he getting his own not-brave-enough-to-get-naked spread in Gay Fancy Magazine (or something), but he's also having tales sung of his brave adventures by ironic-pianist balladeer Ben Folds, whom, I promise, Levi Johnston has never ever ever heard of.

But what about Sarahcuda? Where's her folk ballad? She's twice the folksy ballaverick her granddaughter's father is. Well, she doesn't get a song; she gets a whole opera!

"Say It Ain't So, Joe," a presentation by Guerilla Opera, opens Saturday at Boston Conservatory's Zack Box Theater. The work is composer Curtis Hughes' musical take on America's favorite moose-hunting winker, you betcha. It focuses on that contentious — and sometimes comical — debate from October 2008 between Palin and Joe Biden…

"It is a tragedy about Palin," he said. "Both characters view themselves as saviors of America. And even though I'm not trying to hammer people on the head with a single interpretation, you know that Biden will triumph in the end. But the central figure certainly is Sarah Palin. I found myself having this odd pathos for her, a pathos I would not have felt if I were not writing music for her."

What an interesting coincidence! I've found myself with an odd pathos for a lot of things for about a year or so now.

The Wasilla Hillbilly saga continues…

Bristol Palin's ex boyfriend and father of her baby, Tripp, went on the Tyra Banks show this week and spilled secrets, including that he thinks Sarah Palin knew the two were together in the biblical sense. This, obviously, did not go over well with the Palin camp who released the following:

"Bristol did not even know Levi was going on the show. We're disappointed that Levi and his family, in a quest for fame, attention, and fortune, are engaging in flat-out lies, gross exaggeration, and even distortion of their relationship," says the statement from the Palin family rep, Meghan Stapleton.

I couldn't agree with Palin family rep, Meghan Stapleton more. This is just tasteless.

If Johnston wanted to spend his time "engaging in flat-out lies" and going on "quest[s] for fame, attention, and fortune," he should have married Bristol and joined the Palin family when he had the chance.

No jumping on the bandwagon afterwards.

Remember a week or so ago when Jason Jones braved the trip into "real America" to meet those terrifying "real Americans?"  Jason has been nice enough to give us the real scoop on his trip to Wasilla  when we went behind the scenes with him.

Also, John Oliver explains the similarities (fear) and differences (is the fear real or imagined) between supporters at Obama rallies and McCain rallies.

Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain are published authors, as is Obama's running mate, Joe Biden.

That leaves McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, who is still in the "reading" phase of her career.

And what does she read, you might ask? No, it's not "The Brothers Karamazov" in the original Russian. But it's quite a list nonetheless…

* Anything by Christian essayist/children's novelist C.S. Lewis. In Palin's words, "very very deep."

* Columns by deceased Runner's World journalist George Sheehan.

* News sources. Specifically ""all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years."

And not on the list…

* "Daddy's Roommate," a story of a gay couple that Palin marked for banning as a Wasilla City Council member.

* An undisclosed selection of literature from the Wasilla Public Library, whose librarian Palin approached about a book-banning campaign.

* John McCain's Iraq policy. She seems to believe he doesn't have one.

If you've been to the Internet today, there's a good chance you've seen this video that's been floating around of Sarah Palin singing and dancing with her early-90s Christian music group.

Of course, it turns out that that's not Sarah Palin at all. A reader at Queerty has ID'd the group as Ohio's The Way Christian Church.

But here's the thing: Did this make Sarah Palin seem any kookier or cringe-inducing than she was when we only thought she was a beauty-queening, sportscasting, bridge-to-nowhereing, gay-praying-awaying, Alaskan-independencing, Troopergating, pitbull-lipsticking, the-Earth-is-5000-years-olding, interview-dodging, rape-kit-charging, SNL-on-mute-watcher?

Yeah, maybe, I guess a little. But my point remains: Don't waste your time with Sarah Palin hoaxes. She will out-do you every time.

Now, here's another video that I unearthed today using my expert unearthing skills. And I have officially verified this one. Believe it or not, that actually is the real Sarah Palin.

It's way more nutty than the singing thing.

When are politicians going to learn? If you want to serve the public, you shouldn't go to church!

Both Obama and McCain learned this same lesson earlier in the campaign trail, and now it's Palin's turn…

[Pastor Thomas Muthee] whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.

When he wasn't at the Wasilla Assembly of God, "putting his hands" all over Palin (sounds dirty, doesn't it?), Pastor Muthee spent his time accusing "witches" of causing car accidents? It's kind of nice to see a man of the cloth taking such an interest in traffic violations. And personal harassment.

The Wasilla Assembly of God — or WAG as I like to call it — has already caused enough problems for the Sarah-cuda. Early in her national campaign (i.e. two week ago) it was discovered the church had some odd practices…

Church member Caroline Spangler told CNN, "When the spirit comes on you, you utter things that nobody else can understand… only God can understand what is coming out of our mouths."

If Palin adheres to the same religious philosophy, then she probably thinks Charlie Gibson was speaking in tongues. Because she obviously didn't understand a word coming out of his mouth.

In all honesty, I don't think Palin can be held accountable for Pastor Muthee's actions. I grew up going to church and trust me, you can't throw a hymnal without whacking someone touched in the head by the spirit.

Let's resolve to give all politicians one religious wacko get out of jail free card and move on from this one.