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‘Member that scene in whichever Lord of the Rings it was where Gandalf and Frodo and Orlando Bloom are trekking across that snowy mountain pass and it’s real hard going for the lot of them, and then (camera pan across the Kiwi plains), you see that Christopher Lee is totally muttering a dark incantation to make it snow like the dandruff falling from his wizard-white mane all over the the good guys? I am just saying: It snowed something evil here yesterday, like the Fall of the Age of Men was near at hand. While Sarah Palin was in town.

The Washington Post reports that some 2,200 people showed up for Sarah Palin’s appearance in Fairfax, ignoring the snow (and, you know, reason). Palin was on hand to sign copies of her political treatise, Going Rogue, a book that Foreign Policy assistant editor (and friend to DCist) Annie Lowery calls calls“painfully unserious . . . morally and politically.” Tell that to those who love Palin and everything the Constitution stands for and lined up outside BJ’s Wholesale Club in Fairfax to prove it.