Columns 2016

Time to pay our own bills

Wow. It’s as though the legislators read my columns and decided to test my resolve to not write any advocacy pieces for programs I don’t think should have further financial cuts. I made a promise to myself that, given our current fiscal situation, everything had to be on the table in order to resolve our budget crisis. Then some committee recommended cutting all of public broadcasting funding. And further cuts were discussed for programs that help the most vulnerable in our society.

Public broadcasting has had an uphill funding battle at the state level ever since we lost the oil

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Scribblings

Oh dear lord!

I was watching tv and absentmindedly petting the dog sitting on my chest. I glanced down at my hand and realized it was no longer my hand. It was my father’s hand… big knuckles and all. When did this happen? And why wasn’t I given a vote?

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My take on the Oscars

Chris Rock was great. The show was more entertaining than usual. And mostly, the bit with Chris Rock interviewing movie goers in Compton blew my mind. There still really are two different worlds in America. We need to bring them together to survive.

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Columns 2016

Air travel sucks the big one

According to the U. S. Department of Transportation, consumer complaints about airlines continue to flow in at astounding rates. The number of complaints about fares alone doubled in the past year. A spokeswoman for the airline industry group Airlines for American said, “despite the increase in complaints, the total number of complaints remains low relative to the number of air passengers.” (ADN 2/20/16)

This poor, delusional woman seems to think that the number of complaints in some way relates to general consumer satisfaction with air travel. Let me assure her that it doesn’t. Go to any airport in this country

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Scribblings

Here’s the choices

We could have the first Jewish president.

Or we could have the first female president.

Or we could have the first biggest jerk in America who caters to our basest instincts as president.

Doesn’t seem like all that hard of a choice. 

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I was so excited

For one brief moment yesterday it was snowing here and actually starting to look like an Anchorage winter. Then everything melted before I could even enjoy the wetness. And now we’re back to brown, ugly and icy. Let this winter end since it clearly has no idea how to be a winter.

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