I can’t recall a day that has ever had such a beautiful sunrise AND sunset. It was really breathtaking, especially with the snowcover that went through transitions from sparkling in the moonlight to pink to peach to tangerine and blue and all the way back again. Just beautiful… Sunrise… Sunset…

“The minute I was on that stage in Florida with all those lights in my eyes and the smell of Alaska still on my fingertips and my family, too, all around out there, I was where I dreamed of all those years on the basketball court and in Alaskas’s God given beauty which we must [...]

The New Yorker had a very interesting article today that points out another little gaffe from Sarah Palin’s father, Chuck Heath. This time he points out that her brief stint at the University of Hawaii may have had another cause, beside Palin’s complaint of it being “a little too perfect.” He spoke to Shushannah Walshe [...]

Well, the Muckrakers Ball was a blast!  Spouse and I arrived at 7:00 and Rumrunners was already filling up.  We were greeted by the wonderful people at Cook Inletkeeper who welcomed us and guided us to the back room where a huge spread of food awaited.  I was a bit nervous, but decided in the [...]

GUEST POST BY MICHAEL STINSON [You can buy the Going Rogue Coloring Book HERE, and support both the authors AND Mudflats!] We’d like to thank Mudflats for the opportunity to send along some info about the “other” Going Rouge – Our “Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book” we created that’s been [...]

Wow.  I’m back from the Muckrakers Ball, and what a great time it was!  I met so many wonderful people, and saw so many familiar faces.  It was really amazing.  I was sitting here waiting for my pictures to load and thought about writing up a post tonight, but I started nodding off almost immediately, [...]

Well, today is a jam-packed Saturday for those of you in the Anchorage Bowl! First, you can catch the next fun-filled episode of Moore Up North, right there on your teevee set.  Tune in to KYES, Channel 5 from 4-5pm and join Shannyn and her fabulous guests.  She’ll be talking to some fine folks from [...]

Elstun Lauesen is a contributing author to Going Rouge – An American Nightmare from OR Books. He also appears as a panelist on this week’s Moore Up North which will air on KYES Channel 5 on Saturday at 4:00pm. ****************************** There is war brewing in Anchorage; a clash of visions. This war will culminate in [...]

Flyinureye does it again!  My favorite part is the small type on the ride sign.

Today, a brand new ethics complaint was filed against Sarah Palin. No, you’re not reading an old post by mistake. This is a new generation of ethics complaint. Ethics 2.0, if you will. It has been filed based on information revealed when ethics watchdog Andrée McLeod reviewed emails she obtained in response to a public [...]

Follow me. We’re going to take a field trip. We’re going to the Mudflats science lab. See, you didn’t even know there WAS a Mudflats science lab! There are many little rooms in here. OK, here we are. You’ll notice that our experiment is already set up for you.  Here, on our long black-topped lab [...]

Why? (thunk) Why? (thunk) Why? (thunk) That was my head hitting the desk. You know…. Alaska used to be pristine wilderness, the Last Frontier, North to the Future, land of opportunity, giant cabbages, panning for gold, dogs mushing, eagles soaring, salmon leaping, bears frolicking, and when people thought of Alaska they thought “I’d like to [...]

I know, I know.  I should not be surprised.  I should have lost the capacity to be surprised long long ago.  I’m like Charlie Brown with the football.  You can go ahead and say it. Here’s an excerpt from an interview that Palin did with conservative talk radio host Rusty Humphries. “Would you make the [...]

This is the saddest day of the month. At least as far as vegetables are concerned. I signed up a couple months ago to start receiving a Glacier Valley Farm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box. What this means is that every Wednesday, I get a gigantic box full to the brim with organic veggies. Most [...]

Once again, a grateful nod to our “Boots on the Ground” Mudflatter who took one for the team and actually bought a copy of Going Rogue, waited in line and got to meet the “author” herself.  (We all remove our hats in deference to the intestinal fortitude of Mudflatter LibertyLover)  The scene – Tempe Arizona.  [...]