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In a classic sitcom, if you added a two and one half year old boy to a household already full with six parrots, a cockatoo and a dog, hilarity would ensue.  Not so much in reality… though he does make me smile a lot.

It is now my profound observation, after spending a prolonged period of time in contact with a two and a half year old boy, that they have an energy production factory in their bodies that is absolutely awe inspiring. If we could figure out how to channel it to power our earth, global warming would be over in an instant.

Mitt Romney heard we were having a jobless economic recovery and decided to help by tearing down his old beach house in San Diego and putting up a new one to the tune of about $12 million. Thanks goodness we didn’t let his Bush tax break lapse or some of that money might have gone to feed some hungry school kid whose parents were probably wasting their money on heat or rent or some such silliness. Then where would poor Mitt have been? He’d probably only be able to build an $11,995,000 second home and all his friends would have

A belated happy birthday to my sister who spent her birthday fleeing from the hurricane. Never one to let a disaster pass without turning it to some sort of advantage, she spent the day at the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania looking for just the right outfit and shoes to wear to a natural disaster. I’m happy to announce she found them… and they were on sale. So in the end, she had a great birthday despite Irene’s attempts to cause it to be otherwise.

I sit here with a box next to my desk that contains my new combination fax/scanner/printer. It’s main purpose is to replace an 11 year old fax machine that sits at my desk and groans and creaks like a bridge about to give way every time it prints a fax. The noise is so loud I have to leave the room if I’m on the phone. So why haven’t I taken it out of its box and set it up yet? I’ll tell you why. Because, kids, back in the day before you were a zygote in your mother’s womb,

Imagine if we’d raised his taxes and fed a hungry kid with that money instead of letting him build a $12 million mansion with it? I mean, what did that kid ever do to earn the right to not be hungry in America?

Or can the same phenomenon be seen all over the country? You know, the one where you see a small convertible in red or black and without even looking closely you know it’s being driven by a middle aged white man. Is this really the best they can do for a mid-life crisis?  Hasn’t it just reached the point of embarrassing cliche?

So some idiot jihadist has called for a fatwah on David Letterman for a joke he told. And Letterman shared the glory by showing the writer who came up with the joke. And I thought to myself that it figured that the only time the writer gets credit is when someone issues a fatwah about something they wrote.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!!

Bird TLC’s Autumn Wings Festival

Saturday, August 27th from 12:00-4:00 pm

15510 Old Seward Highway

Join Bird TLC for a fun-filled celebration of birds, wildlife, the outdoors, and Alaska’s version of autumn. Visit with our live education eagles, owls, falcons, hawks, songbirds, and corvids.

Activities will include:

-Dance, laugh, and enjoy music by the Alaska Button Box Gang

-Watch Bird TLC presenters and education birds strut their stuff in the “Project Runway” Bird TLC Program at 1:00 pm

-Show off your talents and knowledge of birds by joining the bird calling contest at 1:30 pm

-Learn and

What is wrong with us as a society that we are no longer content to focus on one chore at a time in order to get that chore accomplished completely and well? According to recent reports, scientists have studied multi-taskers and found that they perform none of their multiple tasks very well at all.  To which I can only say, “DUH!”

I once watched a man driving a truck turn right onto the Old Seward from Dowling Road.  He had a phone to his ear. He had a notepad on a clipboard leaning on the steering wheel. He had a