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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 08:44 AM

I'm just curious...

Has the U.S. Congress ever officially recognized America's own genocide against the Native Americans?

Sunday, March 23, 2008 10:29 PM

DTMFA

DTMFA!

Monday, May 19, 2008 09:51 PM

I read Dan Savage

and I think in this case his advice would be to DTMFA!

But since none of us are Dan, maybe we could ask him to weigh in.

Monday, August 4, 2008 06:12 PM

Huh?

I don't think I understand this situation at all.

Saturday, August 9, 2008 11:25 AM
Original article: Critics' Picks

You don't have to mess around with amazon.fr or worry about exchange rates.

iTunes has the Sparrow soundtrack for $9.99. Put Xavier Jamaux into the search field instead of Sparrow.

Saturday, August 9, 2008 12:38 PM

I lied to my girlfriend once and our dog ratted me out!

There was a large pot of spaghetti sauce in the fridge, and I wanted to get rid of it. We don't have a garbage disposal, and I didn't want to dump it outside where it would attract bears, so I fed it to the dog. My girlfriend got home from work, and when she saw the clean fridge, she asked how I'd gotten rid of the spaghetti sauce. I told her I threw it in the garbage. Then she point blank asked "You didn't feed all that spaghetti sauce to the dog, did you?" I said of course not, I would never do that! The next day when we were walking the dog, I kid you not, the dog started pooping spaghetti sauce. And my girlfriend said "Wow, that looks just like spaghetti sauce." So, don't ever lie to your loved ones. It's wrong, and it's impossible.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 09:50 AM

If you don't feel like reinventing the wheel, join your local Rotary Club.

It's secular, it meets once a week, and it's full of nice people who like to make a difference in their community and in the world. I joined because I noticed that every time I showed up to some volunteer event around town, the Rotary Club was there. I started recognizing a lot of the people. They seemed really nice, so I attended a few meetings and finally joined. You'll end up doing good stuff and meeting nice people. Before there was meetup.com, there was Rotary.

If your town doesn't have Rotary, it probably has Lions or some other service organization. I'm sure any one of them would be happy to have you!

Saturday, August 16, 2008 09:54 AM
Original article: Critics' Picks

Don't! Stop!

I have chores to do! Don't suck me into a music download frenzy! Oh well, too late. My chores will not get done, but at least my playlist will be skittle fresh.

Thank you salon and letter writers. Keep those suggestions coming!

Monday, August 18, 2008 10:47 PM

Yes! Live!

A similar thing happened to me back in 1991. It wasn't cancer. It was a car accident. My mom tried to pass a tanker truck at 85 mph, and she lost control of the car and died. I was in the lucky seat and walked away from the wreck without a scratch. I didn't realize before how fragile and random all of us are. My life went in a completely different direction after that. I tried to get back into my professional career, but everything I thought was important before the accident didn't make sense anymore. Whoever said "the one who dies with the most toys wins" is wrong. The one who is the nicest and most helpful wins. I'm sure of it. And I never ever want to walk out the door angry, or let anybody else walk out the door angry, in case I never see them again.

I did go through a long phase where I traveled a lot, learned new sports, and basically tried to cram in everything on the Bucket List. I'm starting to slow down a little now that some of the major things are checked off.

You may find it impossible to go back to the way things were before. You may find that your priorities have completely changed. You're marching to the beat of a different drummer now. I hope that your family is able to keep up with you. I lucked out. My family has been very understanding.

The biggest pitfall to watch out for is this: Don't assume that your life will be short. Keep planning for the future. I think I neglected this, because I couldn't visualize myself living past my mom's age.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:40 AM

Hey Costco Anchorage!

I'm ready for some live Yo-Yo Ma and $10 Glenlivet now. Good job with the tomatoes, though.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 07:10 PM

Woo hoo!

The local library has it on order. I just place a hold.

Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:36 AM

"I don't want to hear the lizard story, Sergeant!"

I can't remember. Do we ever find out the lizard story?

Friday, September 12, 2008 08:42 AM

I'm in.

That was beautiful. Happy Birthday!

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 07:44 PM

Learn jujutsu!

It is a wonderful martial art, great fun, and will teach you many painful ways to punish unwanted groping hands.

Thursday, September 25, 2008 03:05 PM

@ zaydoun

I hang my head in shame. I'm as appalled as you are.

Sunday, October 5, 2008 08:38 AM
Original article: Opus

Life is good

when my dog sleeps on me. I often say that keeping the dog warm is my purpose in life. Opus could do worse.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 07:34 AM

We're baffled.

In Alaska we have a sort of Canadian accent and a sort of Washington/Oregon/California accent. There is also a rural Native accent that sounds similar to the Hawaiian "local yokel" accent. But as far as I know, nobody from here sounds like they just stepped out of the movie Fargo. Not even people from Wasilla.

Monday, October 27, 2008 02:10 PM

The times they are a changin' in AK

The Anchorage Daily News endorsed Obama yesterday. Woo hoo!

Monday, October 27, 2008 03:46 PM

Yes, governors don't get to appoint senators in AK anymore.

Not since Gov. Frank Murkowski appointed his daughter Lisa. That was too smelly even for this state (although she still got reelected by popular vote). Oh, and you know who else was at the top of Frank's list had he not appointed Lisa? Ben Stevens, son of Ted! Yep, we'd prefer special elections from now on please.

Monday, October 27, 2008 06:40 PM

Maybe you can help make your church stop hurting us.

The Mormon Church is an anti-gay political action group. In the first week of our ballot measure campaign in 1998, they donated $500,000.00 to the opposition which succeeded in making it part of the Alaska Constitution that marriage must be between a man and a woman. Our side spent the rest of the campaign trying to catch up, and we raised $200,000.00 from small individual donations. The opposition already had all they needed and all they had to do was sit back and order media time. We were hopelessly outspent. We got our butts kicked. Now I hear that the Mormons are doing it again in California. Can you help stop the Mormon Church from doing that with the money you give them?

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