Am I the only one who thinks the Supremes ruling on the health care bill was the court’s way of trying to make amends for their Citizen’s United ruling?
In Alaska we fund sports, not hot meals
Did you notice that when the ADN started to cut back on its printed edition, the metro, business and lifestyle sections all disappeared as stand alone parts of the paper but sports continues to hold its own? There’s a reason for that. In this country, sports is king. Nothing else matters as much. Nothing. We don’t need extensive coverage of anything else so long as we have sports scores available 24/7.
This year, despite drowning in revenues, neither the Alaska state legislature nor the governor could find any money for additional breakfasts at school for low-income kids or to provide
How does it happen?
One minute I am walking down the road with two of the sweetest, most wonderfulest dogs in the world and the next minute – actually, approximately six seconds after they spot another dog anywhere on the road – I am holding on to two crazed, barking, snarling, insane creatures who think (totally unaccountably) that despite the fact that together they don’t weigh as much as the dog approaching, they can take him or her on and take him or her down. Thank god most of the big dogs we run into on our walk are A. on leash and B.
It doesn’t matter
I could look into the mirror at what has become of my body… which wasn’t the greatest to begin with… and get depressed. Or I can look at the two dogs sitting patiently on either side of me, staring adoringly up at a physique that would make John Candy hang his head in shame and know that it doesn’t matter to the two critters that most matter to me. No matter what shape my body, they will climb in bed and happily curl up next to me and keep me warm and comforted all night. Or, at least, as much
You know you’re an public broadcasting nut when
You know you’re over the top about public broadcasting when you get angry if you don’t time your car errands to coincide with your favorite program so you can listen to it while you drive. You are even more of an insane public broadcasting fan when you sit in the parking lot of your grocery store waiting for Marketplace to end and then try to grab your groceries and get back to the car before Fresh Air begins.
They should have been Judy’s dogs
When the sun is out, my dogs spend their entire time on the second floor deck following the sun around, snoring contentedly in its warmth, moving only when the sun has moved a little away from them and, even then, using the minimal amount of energy needed to pull their limp bodies over into the full sun again. Given my aversion to sun, heat and sunbathing, and my sister’s fairly slavish devotion to it, I’m thinking I should send them to Atlantic City for the summer so they can sun bathe with her for a few months.
Things I will never understand
Pants without pockets. What’s the point?
Some swerve to kill, others to save
At Bird TLC, Anchorage’s wild bird rehab center, summer is baby bird season. Each year we open our doors to little ones of every type, variety, color and maturation level. The babies come to us either because their mother was killed or they were separated from their nest mates for some reason. Sometimes people bring them in to us as they are fledging because they don’t realize the mom is still around and holding the birdie equivalent of driving lessons with her young ones. Sometimes a tree is taken down and then a nest full of little ones is discovered
The power of chicken soup
Last week I made chicken soup, my go to food for cold winter days. You can understand that summer wasn’t seeming that much different from winter at that point and I figured I might as well give in to the crappy weather and make soup. That night the sun came out and stayed out.
Fair warning, Anchorage. The chicken soup is finished. Let the rain and wind commence.