“Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin’s erratic new memoir, comes from a phrase used by a disgruntled McCain aide to describe her going off-message during the presidential campaign: among other things, for breaking with the campaign over its media strategy and its decision to pull out of Michigan, and for speaking out about reports that the Republican Party had spent more than $150,000 on fancy designer duds for her and her family/Michiko Kakutani, New York Times. More here.

Monday Poll: 74 of 97 -- or 76% of the respondents -- say they are not bothered that they live in an area described by an African-American scholar as "Whitopia." 22 said they were.