More Popular than Porn? Yes, social media is now more popular than pornography on the internet.  Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, and this very blog you are reading now are all part of connecting you to other people, letting you share your ideas, create your own content, and interact on many levels through social networks online. [...]

  [clip from September, 2008] Everyone knows about the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere.”  Former Senator Ted Stevens, and current Congressman Don Young were the bridge’s main advocates in Washington D.C.  The project would have connected the City of Ketchikan (population 8000) to Gravina Island, location of the city’s airport and home to 50 people. In [...]

Bill Sherwonit has been a freelance nature writer since 1992.  His most recent book, “Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness” is now available HERE.   For nearly a quarter-century, Bill has written extensively about wild lands and wildlife. Though he continues to journey into the wilderness each year, he has also paid increasing [...]

How does a nut recover its image after a nasty salmonella recall incident? Happy Monday.

Another beautiful autumn sunset. And (lowering my voice to a whisper)…. no snow yet! Happy Monday! Enjoy the open thread.

It’s been a while since Mudflatters have heard from one of our favorite elected representatives, Les Gara. During the whole election fiasco that happened last year, he’d gallop now and then across the Mudflats on a white horse with messages of support, encouragement, and reminders that there are really good people in elected office in [...]

Yukon Kings in the New York Times The New York Times has taken notice of the fishing woes of the Lower Yukon this year.  Officials with that department and the federal Fish and Wildlife Service, which jointly manage the fishery, say variations in ocean conditions related to climate change or natural cycles are probably the [...]

[h/t Irish Girl]

Yes, Saturday is here agian. The one day a week that we love to tune in to KBYR 700am. Just ignore all those commercials for G. Gordon Liddy, and plug your ears when Fox News comes on. The important thing is that for two hours every week, “Smart Radio 700″ gets a whole lot smarter. [...]

It’s Saturday, and if you’re looking for something to do this weekend that will be entertaining and send a statement, check out Michael Moore’s newest movie “Capitalism, A Love Story.” Below is an email I got from Michael Moore about the movie and the opening last night. If you are planning on seeing the movie, [...]

It was a long, but beautiful ride to the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer last night.  Palmer is the begrudging neighbor of the now better known and more infamous Wasilla.  Palmer is more of an old-time, original Matanuska Valley colony, farming-type community.  Wasilla is more…  Wasilla.   When their high scool teams play, it’s the Moose [...]

It’s been here for over a week, but I’ve been trying to ignore it.  Termination dust.  That’s the name for the snow that settles on the very tops of the mountains, and then slowly, steadily, it inches its way down past the reddened tundra, down past tree line, to civilization, and blam.  Winter is here. [...]

“She is someone who has a passionate base that constitutes millions of Americans, but in the year since the election has ended, she has done nothing to expand her appeal beyond that base into the middle of the electorate where elections are decided.” So says McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt of his guy’s former running [...]

Sarah Palin has been accused of being many things, but a verb wasn’t one of them.  At least, not until now. Yes, she’s been promoted to a part of speech by none other than Glenn Beck, in his latest entertaining and incomprehensible paranoid rant.  It is worthy of note that even South Carolina Senator Lindsay [...]

Remembering the day before when I missed some good wildlife photo ops because I didn’t have a camera, I made sure to have it with me today.  I realized full well that this would probably mean that I wouldn’t see a single living thing.  Boy, was I wrong. Within about 500 feet of my front [...]