What can you say? Somehow, if the current trajectory holds true, I can see Todd and Sarah driving this in about 30 years, going 40 mph down the Seward Highway.

By Ken Morris and Jeanne Devon As outlined in our last piece Obsessive Perfection and Anger Mismanagement, Sarah Palin’s temperament, emotional instability, and what others suggested were psychological disorders that bordered on, or actually crossed into pathology, necessarily leads to the inescapable conclusion that she would, as Frank Bailey stated in Blind Allegiance, be a [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like… Thanksgiving!  A gorgeous, about-ready-to-pop-with-tangy-juiciness cranberry!

By Jim Wright It’s been ten years now. A decade today. And frankly, I think that’s about enough. There comes a point where you have to stop reliving horror over and over. There comes a point where you have to say enough, this and no more. I think a decade is enough time. Now, don’t [...]

~Kinshasa   Forget whatever I told you last night….I love the Congo! Well, more importantly, I love my son — he is just the sweetest little thing. But I really am finding myself loving Kinshasa despite the overwhelming poverty and dispair. The people are just amazingly friendly — it’s been fantastic. I woke up bright [...]

Ain’t it the truth? ************************* (On a side note, check back tomorrow for the second post “From the Cutting Room Floor”, the must read material that didn’t make it into Blind Allegiance)

Here’s a threefer of Brians to start your weekend! I took this picture a while ago, but a good gathering of bachelor moose never seems to go out of style. There were actually three more of them out of the frame. I’m not sure what cosmic occurance transpired that brought them all together in my [...]

Last night the president addressed the nation on jobs, the economy and the “political circus.” The full transcript is below. What did you think? Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress United States Capitol Washington, D.C. 7:09 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, and fellow Americans: [...]

  The tundra in the mountains is starting to turn a beautiful maroon-red, and the leaves a subtle shade of golden brown. Fall is around the corner, and the evenings are glorious.

Ah, Paul Jenkins. You may remember him as one of our “odd bedfellows” during the reign of Sarah Palin. Normally, wildly off the mark, Mr. Jenkins was actually spot on about Sarah, and surgically shredded her in the Anchorage Daily News on a regular basis. He did this not because he had suddenly seen the [...]

Last week, an organization called Equality Works launched the One Anchorage Campaign for a ballot initiative to be voted on by Anchorage residents in the Spring 2012 Municipal Election. The initiative would add sexual orientation and transgender identity to the Municipality’s Equal Rights Code. Per the Press Release from Equality Works: One Anchorage Files Initiative [...]

Ahh. Nothing warms the cockels of the heart like a room full of bloodthirsty Republicans full-out cheering for the sheer number of people put to death in Texas during the Perry administration. Yeah, it’s cheaper to keep people alive than pay for the extended appeals process of capital cases. Yeah, if you’re wrong you can’t [...]

Are you ready to par-tea? Not only “Yeah,” but “HELL yeah” sayeth the dozens of mildly enthusiastic Tea Partiers in New Hampshire this weekend. This video from Dave Wiegel was filmed between speakers Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle. Even though my politics may differ radically from those at the event, I really hope nobody got [...]

~The mouth of the Chuit River, between Tyonek and Beluga, Alaska Remember, way back last year when I rode a bus in a snowstorm to go hear testimony in Kenai? It was all about whether to designate the land around the Chuit River “unsuitable” for coal mining. The way it stands now, PacRim Coal plans [...]

By Jim Wright You ever stop to wonder what you life would be like if it was 1911 instead of 2011? Imagine. Imagine what it was like to be your great grand parents. In 1911, the United States was in the middle of the Second Industrial Revolution.  It was a time of wonder and ever [...]