Elise Sereni Patkotak

There are those who do not feel a dog should ever be fed table scraps. They are not dogs.

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?

How can you tell the difference between an Anchorage summer and an Anchorage winter? Well, an Anchorage winter is cold and wet.  An Anchorage summer is cold and wet and has mosquitoes.

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.

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.

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

I hate to have to admit this, but flying on Continental Airlines was acutally not obnoxious. The attendants were nice, they actually showed up in the aisles to make sure things were ok throughout the flight and we were fed something that at least resembled food.  Wow. Who knew that still existed?  I thought all attendants now had that deer in the headlights look that went into total panic if approached by a passenger.  But Continental seems to have people who actually still seem to enjoy their job. Good for them.