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Windshield wipers

Am I the only one who thinks that the person who thought up the intermittant speed for windshields wipers is a genius?  Or is that a product of my soggy brain due to one too many days of rain this month?

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Columns 2007

BushCheney to Special Olympics…not on my watch!

I realize that Alaska has a credibility gap when it comes to science and technology in politics.  I mean, seriously, will Comedy Central never tire of showing that clip of Uncle Ted’s tube explanation of the Internet. Does no one in the lower 48 get that to an Alaskan, everything good comes from a tube, which is just another word for pipe?  Can you say oil pipeline? Can you say gas pipeline?  It was a natural metaphor for an Alaskan to use.

Don Young is a bit harder to explain what with his “there is no scientific proof of global

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Separated at birth

Alfred E Newman and George W. Bush…..no, that won’t work. Alfred has a brain….oh wait, maybe when they were separated, the doctors gave him the brain and George the….what in the hell did George get?

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Meet Rhodes…possibly the most perfect baby ever

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On May 31, 2007, my godchild Emily delivered a beautiful and perfect little baby boy named Rhodes Vann Pruett.  He’s so perfect, even his poop doesn’t stink. At least, according to his doting grandmother and great-fairy-godmother, it doesn’t.  I chose these two pictures to introduce him to the world because I love the look on Emily’s face as she stares at her new son in the first picture. The second picture I love because I think it proves without a doubt that men start very early clinging to our boobs and this proves it.  Even in infancy, Rhodes instinctively knows

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California spay and neuter law

For so long as there is one dog or cat, or bird or ferret or rabbit, sitting in a shelter waiting to be killed because they are unwanted, no one should be allowed to breed animals for pets. And I really could give a damn about the AKC and purebreeds.  This is about basic humanity and compassion for all creatures. Check out St. Francis of Assisi for more info.

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I can die now….

OK, this has finally gotten too weird even for me. Bush’s former surgeon general has now testified that he was told not to attend the Special Olympics because of its connection to a certain prominent political family.  I can die now. Bushcheney has now destroyed the last bit of faith I had in life.

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Columns 2007

Build a dome for Alaska’s legislature

I took a train trip recently that was supposed to last twelve hours.  About fourteen hours into the trip, with no sight of a conductor to tell me what was happening and no chance to jump off and rethink the whole train trip idea because we were stopped somewhere in the middle of a nameless woods, my mind started to wander.  This is never a good thing.  Perhaps it was something I did in the sixties. Who remembers? Whatever it was, when my mind cuts loose from its moorings in reality and starts to wander hither, thither and yon, the

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You go girl!

So I’m catching up on all the Alaskan news that occurred while I was out and come across the article about Matanuska Maid Company not allowing the governor in after she showed up for a tour of the troubled company that had announced plans to shutter its doors.  She handled it the way I’ve come to expect Sarah Palin to handle things. No hissy fit. No headlines. No feet stomping, childish behavior. No press releases excoriating the company and its board. She simply went home and fired the entire board and replaced them and now she can go there whenever

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