Alaska Dispatch

Time magazine spoke to people who have seen advance copies of Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," and has learned that it consists of five "very, very long" chapters, some score-settling with particular -- named -- McCain staffers whom she feels wronged her, plenty of media-bashing, a testimonial about faith's role in her life, and details about how her upbringing causes her to seek a maverick's path. Two things that don't appear in the book, however, are "hefty political prescriptions" and an index. Time asserts the lack of an index is a joke on Washington D.C. insiders, who are said to scan indices for their own names rather than read entire books. Read more here.