For those following the 2000 mile Iron Dog snowmachine race, it seems like the most famous pair of racers has scratched. Iron Dog development director Heidi Griffin said the injury happened about 30 miles past the checkpoint Sunday night, and the racers were returning to the checkpoint. She did not know the nature of Davis’ [...]

    Here’s a cute picture of Miss CC Strongheart, hunkering down with a good book.  According to her mom, she’s a bit obsessed with this book and finds it no matter where it’s put in the house.   Hmmmm.   Perhaps she’s searching for page 109 (me) or page 103 (Shannyn Moore) or page 100 (Elstun [...]

I’ve tried and tried, but there’s really no way to actually describe Alaska Rep. Don Young. OK “idiot” works to a degree - but it’s so much more nuanced and complex than just simple idiocy.  Usually when confronted with the prospect of writing about Don Young, the best thing to do is just let him speak for himself. [...]

Anchorage Assemblyman Mike Guttierez is at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, that lucky duck. Don’t worry, he still phoned in to the Assembly meeting last Tuesday so he wouldn’t miss out on all the real excitement. Here’s a picture he snapped of some of the prohibited things at the games. All in all, not [...]

Well, the CPAC straw poll results are in, and guess who’s going on the hay ride? I’ll give you a hint. Remember how Sarah Palin just said, in Arkansas that the Tea Party crowd “have to pick a party?” Well, take a typical Tea Partier, remove the racism, and the ignorance, and the psychopathology, and [...]

  Isn’t it pretty?  Those stupid gold stars were getting to be a drag.  We need something that will more accurately represent the spirit of Alaska – its raison d’etre.   Nobody comes here to look at the stinkin’ Big Dipper, right?  Puh-leez.  How many people do you know who have good paying jobs lying [...]

Sarah Palin likes to quote bumperstickers all the time, but I thought this magnet said it all.  It was found in a little shop in Galena, IL by Mudflatter Sue who passed it along via email.  It was the last one in stock, and she bought it! It was kind of nice to take a [...]

Welcome back to Mudflatter JD, our resident History teacher here at The Mudflats.  In honor of the Olympics, she’s put together some fascinating facts from her recent trip to Greece where it all began.  Brian the Moose accompanied her on the trip, but doesn’t appear in this installment.  Read on to find out why. This [...]

There seems to be an interesting next chapter in the Sarah Palin vs. Family Guy kerfuffle. While Sarah Palin and daughter Bristol were busy feeling like they’ve been “kicked in the gut” and calling out the show’s producers as “heartless jerks” for supposedly mocking young Trig Palin, there’s one player in all this that got left [...]

Is it possible that the Democrats are finding a certain part of their anatomy that they’ve been missing for some time?  I refer, of course, to the spine.  And they couldn’t have found a more important issue on which to use it. A health care bill with a strong public option will save tens of [...]

What is there to say? Here’s a gift for the person who has everything. Because I’d feel pretty safe in betting they don’t have THIS – a gen-u-wine roll of embroidered Sarah Palin toilet paper. You betcha. “Embroidered Toilet Paper, first sheet is machine embroidered So if you really wanted to, you could place it [...]

First, let me say that in the last two weeks I have never heard so many people use the “R” word.  No, not “Republican.”  The other one.  Why?  Because Sarah Palin told them not to. Sarah Palin, for all her months in the public spotlight, has simply not learned this lesson – you cannot be [...]

The GOP Census Hits Alaska by John Aronno of Alaska Commons Census season is upon us. Slightly more interesting than the NBA, the census aims, according to the government website, to move the country forward. However, “we can’t move forward until you mail it back.” Ha! So, that’s what happened to health care! The Republican [...]

So, let’s say that you’ve got a roofer, and he says that your building leaks. And you say that it doesn’t. And he says it does. And you say that every year you have a certified roof inspector with all kinds of credentials get up on the roof and check it out, and you pay [...]