Elise Sereni Patkotak

Since today is my shift at the Bird Center, it seems like a good time to remind everyone about the For The Birds auction this Friday at the Hilton hotel. Tickets are available through the office or go to the website http://www.birdtlc.net/ and get a ticket online. If you don’t live near here, you can always make a donation even if you can’t come to the auction. And remember, we ALWAYS can use salmon and red meat. Nothing processed, please. Has to be raw. And no halibut. But I know Alaskans are starting to empty freezers out as the next

Not only do I spend an inordinate amount of time faking that I know why I walked into a specific room, but it is now glaringly obvious that no fried or fatty foods will ever again be digested in my body with the help of a bottle of tums and a lot of moaning.

She would make an exception in my diabetic condition for Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies.

Next time you go East, get tickets for the new musical, The Book of Mormon, by those same wonderfully insane people who bring you South Park. I mean seriously, what’s not to like?

Clarence Thomas is simply the biggest embarrassment to sit on the Supreme Court… ever.  To say nothing of also being possibly the dimmest.

The same people attempting to balance the budget on the backs of America’s poor and middle class were protesting not long ago that we couldn’t take away tax breaks from people making over $250,000 a year because they could hardly be considered rich in today’s economy. Yet somehow, public employees and teachers making – if you include benefits – about $70,000 a year are fair game to have their income reduced.

One argument made was that we couldn’t restrict the amount of obscene compensation the people on Wall Street, the ones who tanked our economy, receive because they would quit

Some people complain that, despite swearing they don’t have enough time to do the people’s business in a 90 day session, our legislature finds it ok to shut down for a week so they can fly to DC and meet with their sponsors… the oil companies. I think that Juneau deserves this break to cleanse all the hot air flowing through it before the final push towards adjournment.

to think of anything creative to write today. So make up your own pithy witticism.

I spent an hour Saturday morning listening to a show that recapped the week of Charlie Sheen. I will now read three Dickens novels in one week to make up for what that did to my brain.

Chestnut Hill College for Catholic Virgins, located among the rich and richer in suburban Philadelphia, recently fired a priest who dared to publicly admit to celebrating fifteen years of a monogamous relationship with his male partner.

And this is why I am such a proud graduate of such a small minded institution. Mostly I’m proud I got out before they totally destroyed any humanity left in my soul.