I write this item most years. This year, my first impulse was to simply call for anything but Palin (or Joe the Plumber). But there are other alternate suggestions: Mad Men‘s retro-swank dudes and dudettes. Keith and Rachel. Rachel and Pat. Darcy Burner’s “” T-shirt. Wall-E. A ruined stockbroker. The young Kirk and Spock. The geezer Indiana Jones. And kind reader Eric Scharf suggests, “You gotta give props to anyone industrious enough to fabricate a giant acorn costume.”