Well, Mudflatters, this day has been a long time coming, but I’m happy to say it’s now official. Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, the book by Palin insider Frank Bailey, award-winning author (and Mudflats contributor) Ken Morris, and yours truly (Jeanne Devon) will at last be a reality and is now available for pre-order at [...]

Happy Pi Day, everyone! The post below is actually recycled from last year’s Pi Day. But rather than confess that it’s a lot easier and quicker to repost, I’m going to come at this from the angle that just as pi is eternally, beautifully constant, so will by my annual Pi Day post. It’s not [...]

By Jim Wright The following story of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race first appeared on Stonekettle Station in 2009. With this week’s kickoff of the Last Great Race, and my well known passion for it, a number of folks have asked about the origins of the event. Here’s the story: AN EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA IS [...]

Hey folks, Snoskred here. Some of you already know that I am a massive fan of Alaskan photographer David Jensen. I have mentioned it here on the blog before. David is looking for reptiles to photograph - Talking to Animals Model Search 2012 Leapin’ Lizards, Slinky Snakes, Acting Amphibians or Rockin’ Reptiles!!! Bring them to [...]

Thanks to Mudflatter G_Katz for sending in these great pictures of a vehicle (at least we think it’s a vehicle under all those stickers) spotted in a local shopping mall. Do you have bumperstickers? Share your slogans in the comments. The only sticker on my car, is the classic No Pebble Mine sticker that can [...]

OK, Mudflatters… It’s Steel ‘N Cheese! Who are you rooting for?

It’s that time of the year again – the beginning of it. And it wouldn’t feel right, hanging up that new calendar without our yearly round up of the ne’er-do-wells, miscreants, and rogues of Alaska politics. Yes boys and girls, it’s time for the Muddy Awards. Now that our heads are clear after the holidays, [...]

Nothing says political season in Alaska like signs. Sure, sign waving happens in all elections, but Alaskans love our signs more than most. And nowhere in Alaska can you witness the traditional Election Eve battle of the signs like you can in two locations – The New Seward Highway and Northern Lights Blvd., and down the [...]

Despite my best efforts to report from the event, anything requiring wireless communication pretty much wasn’t working. But here are some pictures from my trip to D.C. for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. So far estimates put the crowd at 215,000. All I can tell you is that there were a LOT of [...]

This photo of a rally sign from the D.C. Restore Sanity Rally came from Mudflatter Cassie Jeep Pike Palin! Anyone else who wants to send a photo of a rally you attended, pass them along to akmuckraker@yahoo(dot)com!

Time to rally! I will be headed out tomorrow at the crack of dawn for a whirlwind trip to D.C. to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear with John Stewart and Steven Colbert, and thousands of their closest friends. I calculated that I’ll be in the air about as long as I’ll be [...]

  Well, we’ve been having some fun with anagrams back here at Mudflats Central. Here are some of the best ones we found.  You can have fun creating your own HERE.  Do share the good political ones in the comments! Lisa Ann Murkowski – I’m a Liars Skunk Now Joseph Wayne Miller – Enjoy Swampier [...]

Lisa Murkowski has said that she’s not ruling out a third party run should she not come out the winner of the Republican Senatorial primary. There are still more than a thousand votes yet to be counted, and it appears that Miller will likely walk away with the nomination. What does Miller think of this? [...]

Never have the mudflats been quite so lyrical! This is from Bill Nye – The Science Guy. Enjoy!

Guess what!  We’ve just had a whole herd of trolls amble into our back room!  I haven’t seen so much excitement back there in a while.  Apparently they all followed the trail from the Christian Science Monitor that linked here a couple days ago.  There were so many to pick from, it was a difficult [...]