to edit a former vice-presidential candidate/Alaskan governor’s resignation speech? Vanity Fair set out to answer that very question when it asked its literary editor, copy editing, and fact checking departments to decipher the words of America’s favorite pitbull with lipstick, Sarah Palin.

The results are daunting, colorful, and funny (though not really the funny haha you get from an episode of 30 Rock, but more the terrifying funny you get where all you can do is nervously laugh and avert your eyes to try and hide your horror).  I don’t think I’ve ever seen this much ink on anything I’ve written–not even in those infuriating writing workshops where there’s always that one person who fundamentally disagrees with everything you’ve written and has a comment for EVERYTHING.

No matter what’ s next for Palin, it’s surely not writing a book. Oh, wait….