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Happy Tax Day

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Someone has clearly just told this child that Uncle Sam is taking money from her parents today that could more appropriately be spent on making the grinning man behind her go away so she can eat in peace.

Yes, that darling face of worry and pain comes from my gene pool. She has clearly inherited the joy of Zeccardidom in its entirety. Her father’s genes never stood a chance against it.

My brother, on the other hand, clearly inherited the happy Sereni genes. They seem to dominate after the daily wine allotment has been consumed.

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Scribblings

Go ahead. Run one more ad. I dare you.

If I wasn’t going to vote for Mark Begich before, I am now just to annoy whoever it is (Koch brothers) running those incessant ads that make me want to run screaming from the room. It must be nice to be so rich you can buy the majority of airtime available on any given channel to run half truths and outright lies. Yep, politics continues to be the sleaziest business in town. Sorry Whitekeys. The Fly By Night Club at its sleaziest could not hold a candle to the political sleaze already evident this campaign season.

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Scribblings

That wears a nest of robins in its hair

I have a robin that sits atop my bird feeder every day sunning herself. It is the fattest robin I have ever seen. If it gets any fatter, it will have to take the bus instead of flying to its nest. This momma is fat, happy and ready for the kids to come. The problem is that her girth may make that nest crash to the ground. I will try to get a picture but she is very camera shy. The minute she sees me lurking at the window, she politely poos and then flies off. But I will continue

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Scribblings

My world is complete again

When I heard that David Letterman was ending his late night show, my heart was broken. I’ve followed him forever and couldn’t even imagine watching anyone else. And then Stephen Colbert was picked for his replacement and my late nights are safe again. Welcome aboard, Stephen. I can’t wait to see what you’ll do with late night. I know it will be amazing and another reason to stay up late.

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Scribblings

Make it stop, god. Please, make it stop!

Last night on TV there were four… count them, FOUR… political ads in a row either touting Begich or burning him. Do those people who put the ads on realize just how annoying it is to have it starting so early and be so persistent. At this point, I’d vote for Begich just to annoy all those assholes.  And now it’s on my words with friends ads too. Is there no place left in the world to hide?

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Columns 2014

Sleazy politics…. what’s new?

How tone deaf does a politician have to be to think he can insert controversial language into a bill providing services for abused women and children and not have it backfire in a very loud and public way? Or have our politicians reached such a state of total sleaze that they no longer care if they endanger women and children in order to get their way?

In case you missed the recent slime coming out of Juneau, let me fill you in. A bill to extend the Domestic Violence Council, which otherwise sunsets on June 30, 2014, passed the Alaska

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Scribblings

How about this?

Since voting has now become a somewhat useless exercise given that corporations will be able to easily buy whatever politicians they choose, instead of bothering with election day, the corporations will unveil our new leaders in spiffy Superbowl ads. That will get the word out to more Americans than any other method and they can learn something while eating nachos and watching sports. It’s a win-win for everyone. Thanks Supremes!

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What to do with left overs

It’s one thing to have left overs when you eat out from home. You can always get the remainder to go and have it for lunch the next day. But what do you do when on vacation and those big servings come at you that you can’t possibly finish? My friends and I found the answer while in Vegas. We asked for the leftovers to go and requested some plastic utensils so we could eat it in our rooms later. Then we went outside and handed the food to the first homeless person we saw. Food not wasted. Homeless person

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