What’s gone and perturbed our would-be first couple this week? Apparently someone with a …. dum da dum dum….. VIDEO CAMERA. (insert scream here) Imagine the horror when the Palins were catching a plane at the Valdez Airport and met someone who was taking a video of them in a public place!  The outrage! Now, [...]

The mudflats on the west side of Cook Inlet from the air.

A man walks through the crowd at the Ground Zero protest and is mistaken as a Muslim. The crowd turns on him and confronts him. The man in the blue hard hat calls him a coward and tries to fight him. The tall man who I think was one of the organizers tried to get [...]

By Geoffrey Dunn Grammy-Award winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has released a song on her brilliant new album, 100 Miles from Memphis, that takes a critical view of Sarah Palin and the cultural milieu that fuels her presence in American politics. This is not the first time Crow has addressed the Palin phenomenon. Early on in [...]

I was spending a few moments checking out my Twitter feed and I came across a tweet from the National Wildlife Federation (@NWF) which linked to an article called “The Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay”. I clicked on the link because how could anyone NOT click on an article about a mystery monkey? As a [...]

Last week, I wrote my take on the “Dr.” Laura Schlessinger “tirade,” where I discuss that it was about so much more than the “n-word” and I agreed that she absolutely needed to be held accountable. In reading the coverage of the issue on the blogosphere, it was obvious that thousands of people obviously felt the [...]

~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more! The old adage is true – you play, you pay.  I have almost completed shoveling a path to my desk, after returning from vacation, and the only thing that’s going to help today is an Oyster Roundup where I tell you all [...]

No, not taken in Alaska – an east coast swan!

Shannyn Moore and I arrived at the Anchorage Baptist Temple at about 10am.  For the first time in more than a month, the sun was shining and the sky was blue.  The Chugach Mountains were out in full glory, unshrouded by the persistent drizzly clouds that have made this the rainiest summer on record in [...]

Coming tomorrow are photos and a writeup for the funeral held today for Ted Stevens.  I tried to get everything ready tonight, but the blinking nods have set in, and it’s not going to happen until I get some sleep first.  I’ll also be recapping the event tomorrow on The Shannyn Moore Show.  Our regular [...]

In Alaska, we don’t do anything “small.” Former Senator Ted Stevens, who passed away last week in a Dillingham plane crash, is being mourned for three days here in Anchorage.  (Jeanne discussed this earlier.) Monday, the actual funeral mass for the family and friends was held at Holy Family Cathedral (which, for those outside of [...]

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The memorial service for Ted Stevens is shaping up to be quite an event.  I compared his passing to that of Ramses the Great, and by modern standards in Alaska that assessment may not be far off. Tonight, Stevens’ body will be moved via motorcade from All Saints Episcopal Church in downtown Anchorage where a [...]

Talking about the death of former Senator Ted Stevens is a bit like playing with  political napalm these days.  I got the call that Stevens’ plane might  have gone down at midnight Alaska time, which was 4am for me on the East coast where I was at the time.  I went to the Anchorage Daily [...]

What happens when you give a moose a banana?  The question is answered in this awesome video from Vic Van Ballenberghe, filmed at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. I do suggest you watch it with the sound off to avoid the otherwise unavoidable weird vibe at the end.