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Really, who in the hell was the first person to look at them and think that they might be edible once you got passed all the prickly parts? And what came first, melting butter or cooking artichokes? What would you use on them if you didn’t have melted butter? …Assuming that in the past, Ranch dressing was not a staple of most primitive societies.

And Anchorage continues to look like a city in which the flood waters are just receding. It was beautiful when it fell. But having two foot of snow melt in a very short time leaves nothing behind but soggy, miserable citizens who long for spring…only to remember with horror that all this water will just encourage the mosquitoes, making spring even more miserable than our April showers did.

I slept through the night without putting a blog up for today. What? You thought I was awake when I did those blogs?  Do you not recognize the insanity of the dream state mind?

Anchorage has started a tentative and limited recycling program. Yeah, I know. Concepts take a while to get to Alaska because they have to make it up the AlCan. So, being a duly guilt ridden baby booming save the planet type, I immediately signed up for the program and had a huge green can delivered to my home.  I thought the size of the can was funny because I am simply not the type of person who uses that much recyclable material. I mean, for god’s sake, I bring cloth bags to every store I go to in order to

I woke up yesterday, looked out the window and it was raining. And I started singing about April showers bringing May flowers. I got in the shower. When I got out, I looked out the window again. It was snowing. Shoot me. Shoot me now!

For those of you in the lower 48 who wonder about these things, people in Anchorage who have convertibles think that when it gets up to forty degrees, it’s time for them to take their car tops down. 

Please don’t waste your time and energy calling me when that same effort could be put towards someone who needs convincing. As for me, I can’t imagine voting Republican ever again unless my children were literally being held hostage and threatened with death if I didn’t. And even then, I’d have to figure out if the kids were worth it.  Lisa Murkowski is the only exception to this rule and that’s because she’s the only Republican left in Alaska, aside from Sarah Palin, who doesn’t cause me to have a visceral gag response.

This past Sunday, the Daily News ran a story about Don Young’s problems with that little road in Florida. It referred to a former staffer of Young who is now in jail in connection with the Abramoff scandal.  Apparently, Abramoff tried to find a job for this guy, named Mark Zachares, in the Interior Department office that oversees US Territories at a time when Abramoff was trying to influence legislation affecting the territory.  The Bush administration would not hire Zachares.

And that’s how you know that you are beyond pathetic. When an extremely influential lobbyist can’t get you a low

Don’t you find yourself wondering who the 28 % are that still support the BushCheney debacle that is humorously referred to as our current administration. I say humorously because they long ago stop administering anything and started focusing solely on chaos, nastiness, secrecy and torture. I think the idea was if they kept things insane enough, we wouldn’t notice what an incompetent failure they are. And then, just when I think that 28 % is a figment of the imagination of some pollster who was too embarrassed to admit that no one voiced any support whatsoever for these idiots, someone

If there is a god, Joshua Wade will be convicted of Mindy Schloss’ death and will be sentenced to die by lethal injection. And it will turn out that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. We can only hope.