The Alaska GOP’s favorite pollster Dave Dittman has come out with some new numbers about our ex-almost-one-term governor. How many of them would like to see her run for President of the United States? What percentage of Alaskans think that the woman who couldn’t even survive one term as the governor of half a million people [...]

It’s been a great weekend, and it’s not over yet.  I’ve been a little skimpy with the posting this weekend, mainly because the crew from Anonymous Bloggers is in town, and I’ve been having a blast getting to know them all as more than just a little tiny square 1-inch avatar!  Turns out that they’re [...]

Widespread tsunmai warnings were issued after an earthquake in Chile whose magnitude was a staggering 8.8 on the Richter Scale struck in the early hours of the morning.  Details of the devastation are still coming in, and the area has seen more than 50 aftershocks, many at 5.0 or higher.  The magnitude of the quake has caused immediate concern [...]

Here’s the latest in a long and unfortunate line of items I like to refer to as “Sarah-phernalia.” Behold the bobble head. I’ve seen others before, but never one all decked out in camouflage, and never one that’s quite so proud of its packaging.   Product Description If you thought the Left was terrified of [...]

Tune in quick to KUDO 1080am and catch Shannyn Moore talking to the women of Anonymous Bloggers! The group’s co-founder Ann Strongheart was interviewed on Moore Up North which taped last night and will air on Saturday at 5pm on Channel 5 KYES.  The whole show, as always, will be available on YouTube shortly after [...]

This week, during ”Thursdays in the Mud” on the Shannyn Moore Show on KUDO 1080am,  Shannyn and I talked a lot about health care, and about that little widget in my sidebar that keeps counting up the number of people who have lost health care in the last two years.  I watch that number every day and [...]

  Come to Cafe del Mundo tonight from 5:30-7:00pm to support progressive radio in Anchorage!  Donations will be used to get the word out to the population at large that Alaska talk radio is not relegated to the “libruls are destroyin’ Amurrica” crowd that populates (ironically) the left side of the dial.  Let’s help The [...]

I have to admit the other day when I read that Mark Begich opposes the EPA regulating greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources, I started to feel intense pressure in my capillaries. After all, this is Lisa Murkowski’s position, and Lisa Murkowski is the former reasonable Republican senator who has now grabbed her teddy bear, [...]

Well, we haven’t had a moose sighting here at Mudflats Central in quite some time. So, here’s a picture from this past summer. Ah….green. I remember that color. Don’t forget to tune in to The Shannyn Moore Show on KUDO 1080am between 11am and 2pm weekdays. Today in the third hour I’ll be Shannyn’s guest [...]

[A similar article is posted at The Huffington Post] Well, it looks like the inner sanctum just got a little less populated. There aren’t many of the old gang from Alaska left.  Politico reports this morning that Sarah Palin’s most visible henchperson Meghan Stapleton has inflated a life boat and leaped over the side of [...]

Have you ever seen any of those pictures taken in Death Valley where there’s a little rock, and the wind has blown the rock very slowly through the packed sand and it leaves a little migration trail? Well, the other day I found the result of a similar phenomenon right in my yard. I’d never [...]

Kids are off limits!  Remember? So, Bristol Palin, one of those Palin children we were all admonished never to talk about because the former VP candidate’s family life was nobody’s damn business, is now going to star in a TV show.  Yes, an actual episode that the whole country can see by simply pressing a [...]

Well, well, well. I wondered when Scott Brown, the truck drivin’, centerfold posin’ Republican defeated whatshername in the Massachusetts Senate race, what would happen.  The way I saw it was that any Republican who replaced Ted Kennedy would have one of two career paths: a) Follow the will of the constituents he was elected to [...]

I had a fantastic Sunday giving a talk at the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.  There are three programs there every Sunday – The Forum at 9am (speaker and discussion), the Traditional Service 11am, and the Contemporary Service 1:30pm. I spoke at The Forum about blogging, social media, and my take on the shifting roles of journalism and [...]

Alaska Representative David Guttenberg (D-Fairbanks) has introduced a bill to require that the governor and lieutenant governor reimburse the state for the costs incurred by family members who accompany them on official state-sponsored business. Gee whiz.  Wonder why THAT bill got introduced? “It’s reasonable to want to travel with your family, but the state shouldn’t [...]