Every morning when I sit down before the glowing screen with my mug of high-octane liquid sunshine, I wonder what will be revealed. There’s never a dull day, really, and more often than not there’s at least one thing that really surprises me. This morning it was an email from one of the bidders on [...]

Just wanted to take the opportunity to do a little shout out to a couple new Mudflats advertisers!  Mudflatters are definitely a creative bunch, and these two are no exception!  Michelle Michaels Michelle Michaels has the perfect book for a progressive Halloween!  It’s a great story with a Halloween theme that pays tribute to President [...]

Two days left.  I’ve been watching the five-way bidding war for the infamous Ride 2 Recovery ”Private Dinner for Five with Sarah Palin” like a horse race.   In keeping with the dire secrecy and stringent requirements of the auction, we don’t know the actual names of these brave bidders, or which of them may have intentions that [...]

This spring I attended , a Second Amendment Task Force meeting.  It was an interesting experience.  The headline speaker was none other than almost-Attorney General Wayne Anthony Ross who was nominated by then governor Sarah Palin.   The Legislature, for the first time in Alaskan history did not confirm the nomination.  Speaking at the event with him [...]

Only a few days left until the Autumnal Equinox, and already signs are everywhere.

Even wonder what Whitehouse Press Corps legend Helen Thomas reads?  Imagine my delight when I got an email from a Mudflatter at the University of Wisconsin who sent me the recommended reading list from upcoming guest lecturer Helen Thomas:  Nice!  Bloggers on the Bus is #1.  OK, it’s possible that it’s in alphabetical order but I choose [...]

No, you have not come to the wrong blog, nor has The Mudflats been taken over by a brigade of tech-savvy right wing trolls.  Eventually, you know we’d have to agree with something the man said. While the rest of his party was celebrating the choice of novice VP candidate Sarah Palin last August, then-President [...]

Photo – DennisZaki.com While it’s doubtful that many Alaskans feel a sense of pride that their one and only congressman has made Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s “Top 15 Most Corrupt Members of Congress” list, many are relieved. We know he deserves to be on there, and if it weren’t for Sarah Palin [...]

It’s only been a little over a week, but the chilly damp autumn days in Anchorage are already making me look at these pictures with a wistful longing.  Labor Day weekend was gorgeous in Seward, and we headed out into Resurrection Bay to skirt the circumference of Fox Island.  It was breathtaking… a trip I’ve taken [...]

Today I’ll be talking with Christy Harvey from the Center for American Progress, and co-host with Kathy Phillips of Studio 1080 on KUDO 1080am. I’ll be on at about 3:30pm Alaska time (4:30 Pacific, 7:30 Eastern) Live stream it HERE!

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its [...]

Honk if You Love Climate Change Well, if your diet consists primarily of “eel grass” and you’re not that into flapping your arms until you get from Alaska to Mexico and back every year, honk away.  Seems like a species of Pacific goose is becoming content to winter over in Alaska, due to climate change [...]

Our former Mayor Mark Begich started a tradition of the Mayor’s Diversity Month here in Anchorage, to celebrate the many differences, and rich tapestry of diversity here in our fair city.  I was wondering how our current Mayor Dan Sullivan, who is hardly a “diversity” celebrator would handle the tradition. This just in: “September is [...]

Well, I confess that I’m losing count!  I think that the Mudstock Meetup in New York City last month was the ninth one so far.  These events spring up spontaneously when a Mudflatter from somewhere decided it would be fun to meet up wtih other Mudflatters for fun, conversation and libation.  This particular meetup looked [...]