~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more and more! A Mudflatter recently asked me what an “Oyster Roundup” was, and I thought it might be time to give a refresher. In the epic poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the two main characters walk along [...]

You walk down the hall and turn into the kitchen. There you see me by the counter. My eyes fly open wide. I lean up slightly from a Pyrex pan. You see me with my mouth stuffed, barely able to close my lips together. “whut…” I manage to get out as crumbs of an unspecified [...]

~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more! What the Shuck? Forgive me for that WTS? moment… I couldn’t resist. Before we get out the oyster knife and cocktail sauce, here’s a question for you all. What’s more to your liking, a roundup post, or several shorter posts during the [...]

I was unable to make it through the entire “family values” chapter in one sitting, so today we’ll play clean up and get that out of the way before we tackle Chapter 5, bringing us to the half-way mark when we will be closer to the end than the beginning! In this chapter we learn [...]

We’ve made it to chapter four, and there is no rest for the weary.  This chapter, while mostly non-political, is maddening nonetheless.  And while we get a blissful reprieve from the Founding Fathers, and Milton Friedman and Alexis de Tocqueville, we will find ourselves being irritated with Helen Keller.  We will not hold a grudge [...]

I’m really proud of my home town. When I say, “I’m just a girl from Homer” on my blog, radio or television show, I like to think it’s not so much self-deprecation as it is a friendly warning. When Palin signed off on her Facebook blog bashing Obama on Friday with “Sarah Palin in Homer, [...]

Kids are off limits!  Remember? So, Bristol Palin, one of those Palin children we were all admonished never to talk about because the former VP candidate’s family life was nobody’s damn business, is now going to star in a TV show.  Yes, an actual episode that the whole country can see by simply pressing a [...]

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 [...]

Here we go again…  The worldwide media circus once again has Wasilla Alaska as its third ring. Tripp Johnston (son of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston) just celebrated his first birthday and already the Palin name has brought the spotlight upon his little head.  His two 19-year old parents are now involved in a custody [...]

Pages 153-164 AGIA and ACES (Alaska Gasline Inducement Act and Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share) I’m going to let this one lie, because you could basically write a book about it all on its own. It’s particular to Alaska, and it’s wonky. Good people fall on both sides of this issue. Some people I know [...]

Well, looks like Palin got expelled.  No, not Bristol.  Sarah. Tonight is the graduation ceremony for Wasilla High School, and Bristol Palin is graduating.  This did surprise me a little.  Back when I was a youth, if your hind end was out of the chair for more than 18 days out of the 180 day [...]

Well, the internets are all a-flame with the latest antics of the Palin clan.  It now seems that the Johnston’s are going to appear on The Tyra Banks Show this coming Monday.  We’ve been teased and tantalized with hints that Sarah and Todd Palin knew that the two young lovebirds, were….how shall we put this [...]

I almost did it.  I wanted to do it.  But, nonetheless, here I am writing a post about Bristol Palin. What got me? You might think it was the fact that Sarah Palin has been lambasting the media for talking about her children.  They are “off limits,” she cries.  Why can no one respect this?  She [...]

Yes, kids it’s another Sarah Palin biography.  First we had “Sarah – How a Small Town Girl Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment on Its Ear” written by long time Wasilla buddy Kaylene Johnson.  It came out long before Palin’s VP nominatioin, and sat in the Costco in Anchorage in giant stacks.  I don’t know how much [...]

So, today when the long-awaited news finally came, and I heard the announcement come over the radio, and I heard CC on KUDO announce that Bristol and Levi’s new baby was named….”Tripp,” my first thought was that she had been pranked, and pranked bad. I like CC a lot, and I think she does a [...]