If all polar bears looked like this, there would be no question about protecting them and their habitat.
If all polar bears looked like this….
Stop letting abusers sit at the table where the power is
Sean Parnell is the kind of conservative who should make liberals take a second look. While many Alaskans were annoyed at what was viewed as his snub of President Obama during his stop over, it’s hard to stay mad at someone who seems to have his priorities so well ordered.
From being an almost ghostly gray presence during the reign of our gal Temporary Sal, he is emerging as someone who will probably never grace the cover of People Magazine but who will govern Alaska with competence and thoughtfulness. That’s more than most politicians seem to offer nowadays.
In his
Happy Birthday, Grace
Every once in a while we are lucky enough to make a friend in life who becomes a friend for life. I believe I’ve been particularly blessed in this area since I don’t always make it so easy for people to remain my friends, especially when I’m in one of my frequent “I hate the world and am slamming the door on it forever” moods.
But I have this one particular friend, Grace, who had the grace to be born two months before me so she ALWAYS has to be a year older than I am for at least two
I’m thinking of you, dad.
Dec. 8 is a Catholic feast day, though it’s been so long since I’ve paid attention to anything Catholic that I’m not sure which one it is. I want to say the Immaculate Conception but then how would you explain a birth three weeks later.
At any rate, more importantly, it was my dad’s birthday. He’s been gone for over twenty years now. And still when I meet someone who is kind and gentle and just plain good, I immediately think of him. He was one of the best people it has ever been my privilege to know. If there
I’m so tired of it
May I just ask that at least for the length of the holiday season, all sports and other stars shut the hell up about their transgressions, their overused expressions of regret and their hardly meant proclamations to do better in the future. Being scum in your personal life is not something I either need or want to know.
Can he hear them?
Can Obama hear the chants yet? You know, the chants from the sixties that drove LBJ from office. Can he hear them gaining on him? Because they are. Quagmire meant the same then as it does now. And the same as it meant to the Soviets and Alexander the Great… all of whom failed in Afghanistan.
Maybe it’s just the caffeine
I got some papers in the mail yesterday that involved me reading and understanding a financial form. Once I talked myself out of the cold sweat produced by anything financial in my life, I took a deep breath and actually tried to understand what it was saying. I could be wrong and I will have my financially savvy friend Kate double check what I think I’m seeing because I may just be buzzed on caffeine but I believe I might have actually deciphered a financial form correctly… and since Kate doesn’t get here until 6 PM, I have four hours
I saw my life flash before my eyes
Some crazed Alaskan driver in a pick up truck came zooming out of a one way drive way in the wrong direction without bothering to stop to see if any traffic was coming. I was, in fact, almost at the entrance that this idiot chose to use for her hurried exit. As I slammed on the breaks while holding the horn firmly down, my whole life flashed in front of my eyes and quite frankly, I was a bit disappointed.
Will George Clooney PLEASE give me a call ASAP.
Respect in political life
As I listen to the commercials being broadcast endlessly about health care reform and its alleged dire circumstances to seniors on Medicare, what sticks in my mind is the ending to one of the commercials. It is simply a senior saying, “Seniors won’t forget”. The not too subtle threat is that if a politician votes for health care, senior citizens will vote en masse to turn him or her out of office.
And so my last hope for civil discourse crumbles as the only age group who could possibly still remember what civil discourse sounds like makes a move to
Christmas gift suggestion
Buy a book by a real author. Show Sarah she can’t dumb the whole nation down no matter how hard she tries.