Nice work if you can get it

Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh ...

— Ira Gershwin, from A Damsel in Distress

Sarah Palin's legal defense cost millions [sic] in, um, committed and long-since-budgeted-for government salaries:

An administrative director in the AK Governor's Office said she's going to ask the Department of Law about some other puzzling parts of the spreadsheet, including a line item that says 0.3 attorney hours added up to $10,063 in costs.

Earlier: Dear Department of Law.