Elise Sereni Patkotak

If that Florida congressman was both an alcoholic AND had issues with underage girls, why did all his colleagues just turn and look the other way?  Is there truly no honor in politics?  Were they all just so stupid they didn’t see it?  If they can’t stand up on an issue as simple as this, what hope does this country have for its future?  It seems like congress has just become the place where everyone protects everyone else there as their first priority and constituent concerns come way down the hierarchy.

Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of my arrival in Alaska.  Tomorrow will mark the 34th anniversary of my arrival in Barrow. It’s been a long, strange journey.

Remember when Ike’s son and Richard’s daughter married thereby uniting what was then two American political forces?  Fast forward to 2006. Imagine what would be produced if Cheney and Rumsfeld’s children managed to somehow unite and reproduce.  Scary, isn’t it?

Let’s all send out a cheer to those Aleut villagers who have refused Venezuela’s free heating oil in protest of their idiot president’s (Venezuela’s, not ours) remarks about George Bush. Bush may be the biggest disaster to hit the White House since I don’t know when but he’s OUR disaster and if you can’t respect the person, you need to respect the office. That’s why our elections happen in the voting booths and courts in this land and not at the end of a tank or gun.

I hope someone here in America appreciates the sacrifice these people have just

It is the 500th day in a row of rain here in Southcentral Alaska.  People are starting to look grim.  Mold and mildew are growing in the most unimaginable spots on animals and humans alike.  We have become Juneau.  There is no hope left. They might as well move the capitol here.  You can’t insult the soggy.

If the rumors about Condi Rice and that Prime Minister are true, then she has a better love life than I do. The woman is the frigging secretary of state of a country at war and looks like you’d cut yourself hugging her and she not only has the time, she has actually found someone attractive, to date.  Now I really am depressed.

I grew up Catholic at a time when Catholic most emphatically did not mean Christian.  Christian meant Martin Luther.  Catholic meant the pope.  The gap between the two was the size of the Grand Canyon and just as hard to hurdle.

So growing up I never knew anything about the YMCA or the YWCA except that they had Christian in their name and so we didn’t go there.  We went to CYO.  Our C stood for Catholic and that made all the difference.

It wasn’t till I got to Anchorage that I started becoming familiar with the YWCA.  I was

…but then I see a picture of Laura Bush looking adoringly at her husband and think that alien abduction can be the only explanation.

Gee, an intelligence report just came out that shows that the war in Iraq has increased Islamic extremism and created a new generation of extremists.  DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!