Gwen Ifill asked an odd (but welcome!) question about nuclear weapons in the Vice Presidential debate: “What should be the trigger, or should there be a trigger, when nuclear weapons use is ever put into play?”

The RESPONSES to Ms. Ifill's question were even more odd, and so was the next-day coverage in the Washington Post.

Gov. Sarah Palin: “Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be all, end all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet, so those dangerous regimes, again, cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, period. . . .Our nuclear weaponry here in the U.S. is used as a deterrent. And that's a safe, stable way to use nuclear weaponry.” hmmmm. I won't elaborate on that.