UPDATE: Tim Blair: “If true . . . the phrase ‘hide the decline’ may mark something of a turning point.”

UPDATE: John Lunde emails: “Too true. What male reader of Ann Rice hasn’t exclaimed at some point, ‘Damnit, man, shut up and bite someone!’” Ann Rice has male readers?

Meanwhile, there’s more out from L.A. And it’s already snared L.A. Times columnist James Rainey.

As a career blood banker I wanted to write to thank you not just for the donation but for the publicity. The average donor is getting older and a lot of younger people can’t donate because they have tattoos or piercings.

You aren’t seeing things, the questionnaire IS getting longer. We are also looking at more testing (they are considering mandating a test for Babesiosis) and if that wasn’t enough, Obama’s tax on medical devices will add $2.50 to the cost of producing a unit of blood. That cost is passed on to the patient and at 15 million units of blood each year you can do the math. He’s going to kill a vital part of the health care industry for the sake of his ideology.

Okay, that’s a new one. And, yeah, the tattoo/piercing thing is obviously an issue, as are lots of other exclusions.

UPDATE: Reader Dave Ivers writes: “Honestly. She just drives them insane, doesn’t she? Not a rational thought in the bunch. I’m not that wild about Palin, but I wonder what effect a couple of more years of this idiocy will have.”

It’s amazing how Breitbart mousetraps them again and again.

Message to Dems: That makes ObamaCare considerably less popular than Sarah Palin.

This is why Sarah should have brought her own camera.