I miss Jon Stewart but I will miss John Oliver too. He’s been an amazing substitute host. Wish they would do a Huntley/Brinkley type of broadcast so we could have them both on air at one time. Now that would be Nirvana during the next presidential election… campaigning for which has, apparently, already started.
It’s my bed
I give my dogs a lot of leeway in all things. But when I try to move them over so there is room for me in my own bed and they let loose with a soft growl, I think things have gone too far. It’s my bed. I pay the bills. I buy the food. I have the opposable thumb that can work the thermostat. That gives me some priority on at least a section of the bed, right?
drunken drivers
There should be an island in the middle of nowhere where all drunk drivers are dropped off with no return ticket… ever.
a perfect Sunday
It’s pouring rain. Grey. Cold. After a long hot summer, I’ve finally shivered in my house again. I sit in my bathrobe, hair askew, teeth the only things brushed, and plan a day around a newspaper, a book, a magazine, playing with my birds and otherwise being a total lump on the fabric of the earth.
A perfect Sunday.
Military sexual assault
The military doesn’t want changes in the chain of command for reporting and dealing with sexual assault in the military because it will interfere with the way things are done. Yet they somehow don’t think that 26,000 reported assaults (over half on men!) indicates that chain of command may already be broken and should be changed. And, gasp! surprise!, when the military brass went to Congress to testify about this they were, except for one person, all old white men. Now there’s a group sensitive to the topic, right?
Beyond gross
Someone – and I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that someone is probably a male – molested a horse at the Fairbanks State Fair. Unless Katherine the Great has been reincarnated, this means that there is some sicko out there who finds horses attractive as a sexual partner. Oh dear lord!
Nature abhors a vacuum
The United States Congress is on a five week hiatus from their sweat inducing labor of getting nothing done while making a great deal of noise in the hope we, the American people, won’t notice. Much to their chagrin, it seems the American people have actually noticed as the approval rating for our august national legislature is hovering around 17%. This, of course, leads to the inevitable question of who the heck those 17% are?
Some applaud the fact that Congress has passed so few bills this session due to gridlock. These are the people who believe nothing good can
How I know fall is approsching
Each morning I close one of my windows a little bit more. By the first freeze, they will be closed completely. It’s like watching the fireweed bloom at its tip… a sure sign that winter (thank god) is on its way.
Thank you
Thank you , whatever being is out there, for the cooler grey weather of fall that is upon Anchorage. I can feel my normally cheery spirit returning with each drop in the temperature.
Oh HIllary
If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect you’ve had a few nips and tucks to make your face more presentable in a presidential campaign. So sad.