Here is our first “Boots on the Ground” report from the Going Rogue book tour!  Thanks so much to Mudflatter 10cats4me who took one for the team and got up before dawn to be there and share the experience with the Mudflats community!  There will be more Boots on the Ground reports coming so stay [...]

Page 292 Before the debate a campaign consultant made a comment about her weird vocal inflections. She’s been talkin’ the same way for 44 years and she’s not going to change now. “Besides, I thought of all the money Tina Fey was making imitating me; I didn’t want to screw up her SNL thing by [...]

For those of you who missed Moore Up North on KYES Channel 5 yesterday, here is the hilarious intro with the incomparable Alice Welling in the role of Sarah Palin, and the “effete young chap” Andrew Halcro who was first introduced to the world on page 116 of Going Rogue. The rest of the show’s [...]

In the sporadic tradition of starting your Sunday with something completely apolitial, I present – a baby coelacanth (see-la-kanth)! If you are like the vast majority of people, you have no idea what a coelacanth is, but that’s OK because I’m about to tell you. In college, I took a seminar on mass extinctions. For [...]

A leftover shot from the Alaska State Fair.

It’s that time again! Saturday night, when a tiny ray of light shines down on the deep dark horrible place that is normally….conservative talk radio. For the next two hours, you can tune in, call in, live blog and otherwise immerse yourself in The Shannyn Moore Show. Senator Mark Begich will be calling in from [...]

Page 254 (Posted previously in sneak peek) A TV station in Alaska was willing to spend any amount to get a local reporter on the scene of the nomination to ask “simple, softball scripted questions,” but the campaign wouldn’t allow it. She was hoping the national media would pick up on the simple softball scripted [...]

“Homework on a Saturday?” you think.  “What’s the deal with THAT?” Well, this is the deal.  We’ve been waiting for health care, and talking about health care and listening to other people talk about health care, and getting screamed at by teabaggers talking about the evils of health care, and suffering through round after round [...]

I have not mentioned until now that each chapter begins with a quote. But this one, I have to share. It may not mean much to you if you have not already waded through the first three chapters, but here it is. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and [...]

This week it was Senator Begich’s turn in the chair on Matt Felling’s View from the Hill. They talked health care, Afghanistan, polar bears, and why Drue Pierce was asked to step down as Health Care Proposed senate health care bill will reduce the deficit for our country.  It will focus on saving lives, saving [...]

It’s like a political Frankenstein movie. Sarah Palin has helped to create the atmosphere of incivility and the shouting, heckling, teabagger town hall interrupting, “You lie!” shouting, teeming masses of malcontents that has taken over the national discourse. And now they have turned on their creator…  Chants of “Quitter!” and “Sign Our Books!” are heard.  [...]

During the campaign season, and before she quit, Sarah Palin talked about getting Alaska’s natural gas to “hungry markets.”   But there are other “hungry markets” that have a more pressing need this year. The Daily Beast reports which states have the most disproportionate hunger problems.  The results are not good for Alaska. To compile our [...]

It’s technically Friday, and that means that the week I’ve been dreading for over a month is almost at an end.  I pretty much wrote this week off except for blogging  Palin’s book.  It’s become slower going, but I continue to make progress.  Unlike in Alaska, there’s a bookstore in Santa Cruz that has an [...]

(L-R) John Bitney, Shannyn Moore, Anne Kilkenny, Andrew Halcro Tonight I attended the taping of Moore Up North, and what an interesting evening it was. All I have to say is tune in on Saturday (KYES Channel 5 at 4pm) and buckle your seat belts. If your couch did not come with seat belts you [...]

The mayor of the town sat with his feet on the desk, sucking on a chicken bone and looking out the window, surveying his kingdom. OK, it wasn’t really a kingdom, but that would come. He tossed the chicken bone in the trash can and it landed with a clang as he enjoyed the view [...]