Went down to Park Square here in Anchorage last Wednesday to help show Bird TLC education birds to all the sailors and marines on leave from the USS Anchorage. There was a time in my youth when, during fleet week, I would not have had to pay for a drink all night. Now I looked at all the beautiful young men and women in uniform and they all looked like they could be my grandchildren. I couldn’t have worked up the energy to flirt with them even if I wasn’t aware that I would just look like a wrinkled old
How to lift your depression
Find a headline in the paper that states that the Alaska Republican Party has been accused of trying to kill all Christians in its ranks by members of its own party. See, life can have its fun moments.
Happy First Anniversary
One year ago today these two sweet dogs came into my life… ok, maybe sweet isn’t the right adjective here. After all, I just found out that Bubba has apparently be using the corner of my living room carpet to relieve herself at night so she doesn’t have to walk all the way to the dining room five feet away to pee on the pads I’ve put down for her. And Carm spends most of the night trying to shove a particularly smelly and questionable Santa Claus doll under my pillow so all those other dogs won’t get it. But
So here’s how my week went
I’m sitting in my office getting some work done. It’s nice out so I have my office door open so that the dogs can run in and out of the yard at will. Suddenly I hear hysterical yipping interspersed with hysterical barking. I run into the yard to find Bubba has stuck her head between the metal fence and the house and is now stuck. Her butt is wagging frantically as she screams. Carm, every helpful, is alternately barking and licking her butt as though that will grease her head enough to get her out. I grab her and try
The Wild Wild West that never was
I grew up watching westerns on TV. Maverick. Bonanza. Have Gun Will Travel. Rawhide. Gunsmoke. The Rifleman. They presented Americans with a fantastical view of our past in which the silent stranger with a gun solved all the town’s problems. Shootouts at high noon always ended with the bad guy dead and the good guy walking away – tall, proud, a loner who brought justice to town and then moved on to the next one that needed it.
Then westerns disappeared. You can’t find one on TV now that Deadwood is gone. Maybe it’s because it’s hard to swallow that
Oops
I take back what I wrote yesterday. I just saw some of the stuff emerging from under the melting snow. It’s scary. So please, god, feel free to cover it back up until I am strong enough to deal with whatever it was before it spent 9 months covered by snow.
Seriously
May starts tomorrow. So could we please have the snow all melt overnight so I can at least dream of the flowers I want to buy without feeling totally foolish.
Why is it
Why is it that some people feel our laws should only be followed when it’s the easy choice to make? But when the choice is difficult…. putting Japanese Americans in camps, pulling American terrorists out of the very legal system that was created to handle crimes by citizens, deciding how long we can keep people in an island prison with no access to justice and no proven charges against them… some Americans, perhaps the same who thump their chests and declare that no one steps on America, are the first to decide the laws should not apply and that we
There has to be better candidates
Surely Alaska can come up with better senators than those we currently have. You know, people who would not be in the pocket of special interests. People who would vote their conscience and not vote based on their overwhelming need to be re-elected so that they can continue to fatten up at the public trough while denying everyday citizens even a small piece of that pie. People who would not let the NRA rule them like they were just little bitches.
Let me see if I have this right
Democratic former President Bill Clinton… goes on to found a global initiative to deal with world problems
Democratic former President Jimmy Carter… goes on to work for world peace and build homes for people
Republican former President George HW Bush… retired to his rich compound and played golf
Republican former President George W Bush… paints pictures of himself in his bathtub
Democrat former vice president Al Gore… works on issues of global warming
Republican former vice president Dick Cheney…. continues to scare the crap out of anyone with an ounce of sense or decency.
Hmmm….