Welcome to the Year One A.P. One year ago today, on July 3rd, our then governor, now ex-half-governor stood on the shore of Lake Lucille before her family, her state and a raft of honking grebes, and shook the dust of Alaska off her naughty monkeys. She quit to become a brand, a celebrity, a political [...]

These may be some of the last images to come out of the Gulf of Mexico for a while as the ‘Unified Command’ has stated that anyone in the “safety zone,” such as press could face a $40,000 fine and a felony conviction. To say this will hurt the coverage of the BP Oil spill [...]

Here’s a great video of Anchorage’s Hands Across the Sand event from Zach Roberts of insurgencyusa who is up in the Last Frontier doing some documentary work about the reality show we like to call “Alaska Politics”. InsurgencyUSA even has its own blog mascot inspired by our very own Brian the Moose. It was quite [...]

We’re getting reports from the gulf that BP is involved in another cover-up – in the literal meaning. British Petroleum is trucking in sand to cover up the oil. Let me repeat that – instead of cleaning up the oil they are just bringing in sand from other beaches and covering it up. In the [...]

Never before has so much horror and humor appeared in the same email. Yes, Glenn Beck is apparently coming to Anchorage on September 11. And yes, they sent an email to the Alaska Democratic Party to see if perhaps they’d like to be a sponsor of this awesome event. OK, I know that Alaska Democrats [...]

Behold the winner of the semi-coveted Bulwer-Lytton award, which is given annually and rewards the author of the sentece which could begin “the worst of all possible novels.”  The prize for the worst sentence is $250.  Here’s the winner from Molly Ringle. For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another [...]