Admittedly, if this was Silky Pony, we’d be rubbing his face in a mountainous pile of shinola.
And relishing every minute of it.
Sarah Palin brought one unusual accessory to the Alaska Governor’s mansion after moving in last year: A tanning bed.
Al Giordano’s NarcoNews first reported that Palin had the apparatus installed in the mansion in Juneau, and a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Roger Wetherell, confirmed the account to Politico.
“She paid for it with her own money,” Wetherell said in an email.
What’s the difference between Palin and our Silken hypothetical? Health reasons, maybe: Per Media Blog, it isn’t unheard of for Alaskans to try to stave off Seasonal Affective Disorder with a few minutes under the lights during the 24-hour darkness of the winter. See, e.g., this bulletin board thread on coping with SAD up north. Various medical sites advise against using tanning beds since they rely on UV rays, not the sort of full spectrum biologically active light found in light boxes typically used to treat SAD, but looking good is a therapy all its own, I guess. Second look at Edwards’s primping!
Seriously, though, do any readers have experience with this? And why are we focused on this today when there’s an even more shocking Palin revelation in the news?
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