Palin Throws Bus Under the Bus In a display of almost poetic metaphorical beauty, Sarah Palin has now thrown the bus…under the bus.  That’s right, she’s now given up (at least in part) the Rogue on Wheels; the bus of the people; the Palin Express, in favor of winging around the country on a $4000/hr. [...]

One of the very few duties of Alaska’s Lt. Governor, other than overseeing the Division of Elections, and sitting around while the governor runs the state from her Blackberry while campaigning for VP,  (Oh, I guess that one doesn’t apply any more)  is to decide whether to certify state ballot initiatives. A ballot initiative that [...]

(Looks at clock) OK, I’ve been waiting for days, and nothing.  Not a peep. We remember, of course, that when Newsweek recently published a cover with a picture that Palin posed for during a Runner’s World photo shoot, in a cheesecakey pose, leaning on the flag which is draped over a bar stool, she cried [...]

That’s right, none other than Carly “Ship Them Jobs Overseas” Fiorina is humbly grovelling for the endorsement of Sarah Palin.  She will be running for the U.S. Senate against the three term Democratic Senator from California, Barbara Boxer.  When asked if she thought Sarah Palin would endorse her bid for Senate or that of her [...]

It seems as though every time we turn around, somebody somewhere wants to mess with salmon fisheries in Alaska.  There’s Anglo-American and Northern Dynasty who are trying to put a huge open pit gold mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, and now the Chuitna Coal project. Resource development is inevitable in the 49th state.  [...]

OK, ready?  Newsweek has the ultimate Sarah Palin quiz, based on three books – Going Rogue, The Persecution of Sarah Palin, and Going Rouge. Click if you dare. No, I did not get a perfect score.  I got a humbling 84%.  In my defense, I did not read The Persecution of Sarah Palin, nor is [...]

Republican lawmakers are whining up a storm about the length of the proposed health care bill. You’ll recall that Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah bloviated that HR3962 was “longer than War & Peace.” Not so. War and Peace has about 560,000 words and the Senate Health Care Bill has a mere 314,900, so there. Granted [...]

Here’s something that will make you all chuckle.  I remember back in the early days of Troopergate when it was first being reported that the governor had it in for a certain State Trooper named Mike Wooten who was formerly married to her sister Molly.  Rumors were beginning to percolate that the newly removed former [...]

Was she inspired by the intrepid runners of Ketchikan Alaska?  They ran the infamous “Road to Nowhere” this summer on the access road that got built anyway, despite the fact that the even more infamous “Bridge to Nowhere never” happened.  “Why waste a perfectly good road in the middle of nothing?” they thought  So they [...]

Dear Mudflatters, I love Thanksgiving.  I think it’s my favorite holiday.  One of the main reasons is that there is no gift buying involved.  It becomes necessary to show appreciation and gratitude using other means.  Sometimes it comes in the form of an invitation to dinner, sometimes it comes in the form of a toast, or [...]

(Cracks knuckles and rubs palms together briskly) We are about to knock off the last agonizing chapter of the hardcover $19.97 bologna sandwich that some rogue calls a book. Ready?  Let’s go. Page 383 The drive to Fairbanks for the abdication ceremony was “magical”. The motor home was “filled with coffee.” A bunch of local [...]

Last time it was two DJs from Montreal who cooked up a prank that had Sarah Palin VP candidate on the phone with someone she thought was French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Not so, much to the amusement of many. This time it’s comedian Mary Walsh in her character ‘Marg Delahunty’ that got the last laugh.  She [...]

We’ve been reading transcripts of her speeches, and her Tweets for months now.  A few of us have even been reading the ultimate mind-sucking tome Going Rogue.  It’s time to test yourself.  Do you have the stuff?  Can you write meandering, self-absorbed ponderings about local flora and fauna of Alaska?  Can you take us down [...]

This is a picture I took in Wasilla the week Sarah Palin was selected as John McCain’s running mate. It seemed appropriate somehow back then, but now even more so, because I am finished with Going Rogue. I read the whole thing cover to cover.  I have done it, and I still live and breathe. [...]

Looks like somebody has made a decision about who to crawl into bed with, while trying to get elected governor all by himself. “Clearly the federal government is taking away our freedoms and our opportunities for a strong-growing economy,” Alaska’s Sean Parnell said in an interview. “We’re fighting them off every day that I’m governor.” [...]