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Since her dental surgery, Blondie eats readily, has more energy and is generally a much happier dog. The moral of this story is that, although getting close to a friend and sniffing their breath is probably considered rude in most cultures, you should regularly practice this with your dog no matter what look they give you. A little bad breath is acceptable. When the odor emanating from their mouth knocks you into another room, no matter how much their tail might be wagging, they need to see the vet. And if your dog starts backing off and giving you odd

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that

As I was leaving lunch today, I watched you, Malia, drive by in the truck with all those boys inside and thought how lucky your kids are and Noe’s kids are because you both actually decided to not only have kids, but to actually raise them and not leave them to someone else to raise. I realize as Blayke and Travis (perhaps, in some ways, especially Travis – he always owned my heart) enter the teen years you both will soon realize that something horrible has happened to your children. According to my friend Kate, the teen fairy comes at

As someone who survived the grey whale rescue in Barrow, I feel I should have some say on who gets to play me in the movie. Simply put, Angelina Jolie.

Hey, I could have looked like that once if I’d wanted.

Anyway, since one of the chronic complaints about outside media stories on Alaska is that no one ever gets the details right, let me offer the producers a few suggestions.

For starts, be honest about the reporters and film crews who came to Barrow. That means showing the looks on their faces when they first landed at the airport

My Blondie had dental surgery recently because A. she’s old and her teeth are showing it and B. I am a bad mother who did not notice how extra rancid her breath was smelling until things were in pretty sad shape.

So she’s home now and has been on pain pills and looks fairly at ease. For some reason, this led me to think that I should look in her mouth to make sure all looked ok at the sites where teeth had been extracted and/or worked on.

So as she slumbered in pain pill heaven, I reached down and

The war in Afghanistan has been going on for 9 years. Last month was one of the bloodiest for US casualties. Bin Ladin is still at large. The Taliban is still a potent force for hate. The Afghani government is so corrupt you can smell the stench over the smell emanating from the Gulf oil spill. But the headlines in the paper are about the one year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death.

Really?

For the past six months I kept hearing about some kid named Justin Beaver who was supposed to be such a teen wonder and could not figure out why, when I googled him, nothing came up. Turns out his last name is not Beaver.

Well, that’s as much energy as I have to put into this particular issue today. Maybe next week I’ll figure out how to actually spell his last name and by August come up with the enthusiasm to google him again.

Who the hell keeps responding to those e-mails addressed to “My Dear Companion in God” from Nigeria? Someone must because they keep sending them out. But seriously, who the hell would still be responding after this many years of knowing it’s a scam. Are there really that many dumb people out there? Because if there are, then a lot of my questions about how this world got itself into such a mess have been answered.