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One week and one day to go

Then all the noise will stop. At least, the noise coming out of politicians’ mouths. But then will start the Christmas screeching. Oh god. Oh god. The noise will only end when I never turn on a tv or radio again or look at a magazine, newspaper or the Internet. I wonder if there’s a cave someplace I can occupy?

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Columns 2014

Gay marriage… will we ever reach the day when it’s all just “marriage”?

They sat across from me at dinner. It was my treat to celebrate their wedding. Their smiling picture, in which they held out their hands with the wedding bands showing, had appeared on the front page of the ADN the day after the ban on gay marriage was overturned in Alaska. They hadn’t planned on becoming the face of gay marriage here but the quirks of fate had made it so. They were the first to apply for a license in Barrow and, when the three-day wait period was waived, the first to marry.

Whether or not their marriage will

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Too Bad

Too bad there isn’t a central number I can call into to notify everyone that I already voted early and they could stop calling me, ringing my door bell, stuffing my mailbox and ruining my tv watching with ads for candidates and ballot measures. It’s been going on for a year or better now. If I didn’t know the issues and candidates at this point, I should probably not have been voting.

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CSI: New Orleans

You know it’s a badly derivative show when you can call out the lines before the actors say them and know just what shot and look the camera will capture minutes before it happens. So old and tired for a brand new show. Deleted all the episodes I’d DVR’d in the hope that it would be a good show.

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Just keep repeating

Do not put your phone down the garbage disposal. Do not put it on your driveway and run over it. Just keep repeating… only two more weeks, only two more weeks. Then you can safely pick up your ringing phone and hear nothing more annoying than a charity trying to hit you up at the holidays for a donation. And at this point, that sounds like sweet relief from the taped messages from politicians and their cohorts telling me not only why they are so wonderful and why their opponent eats little children alive and should not be in elected

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Bird TLC needs you!

Clinic and Office Volunteers Wanted:

Bird Treatment and Learning Center (Bird TLC) is looking for clinic and office volunteers! Clinic volunteers provide rehabilitation and care for sick and injured birds, from chickadees to bald eagles. Office volunteers will be involved in a variety of activities, including helping with intake procedures, answering phones, preparing mailings, word processing, database entry, etc. If you’re interested, please email [email protected] or call us at 907-562-4852. We look forward to working with you – Thanks!

Board Members Wanted:

Bird Treatment and Learning Center (Bird TLC) is seeking interested, dynamic volunteers to join our Board of Directors!

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