Sesame Street missed a perfect opportunity. For one of their songs teaching numbers to children, they should have created a James Brown muppet and have him sing “Get Up, I Feel Like Being A Six Machine!”

From the article: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Donald J. Trump on Tuesday that the orange air blanketing regions of the United States was intended as a “spectacular tribute” to the US president.

Unsurprising, but instructive of partisan shifts. About 20 years ago antivaxx skewed far left. But it was the lunatic fringe pushing it. The Democratic Party worked at keeping it there. Then It jumped the aisle where lunatic fringe was normalized. The far right made it Republican policy.

Only some of you will get this.

@alaskawx.bsky.social discusses why temperatures in much of Alaska have been a bit cooler than we’re accustomed to.

Poltergeist Scariest movie in which no one dies that’s ever been made. And a good commentary on television. An underrated Spielberg masterpiece.

“Children are paying the price for the escalating conflict in the Middle East, including children far beyond the region,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “The longer this continues, the worse the consequences will be.”

Should it be, “Let us pray,” or “Lettuce. Pray.”

Denali Park. 1990. The year I went from urban hipster to wannabe Alaskan.

Guess what, gang.

Chris Nolan's latest movie opened yesterday and you really Odyssey it.

We live in a world where #TacoBell is the hero in a food-borne illness outbreak. They're easy to mock, I've done so many times, including on a recent post. But the reality is that they identified the source before anyone else – including our hobbled government – and pulled the products. Credit due.

I’m old enough to remember when Devil’s Lettuce referred to marijuana, not a head of green leaf that you grabbed from the supermarket and the next day wished you hadn’t. Times change. #TrumpTrots

“Though rising sea levels and powerful storms are devastating coastal areas, it’s not too late to stop floods from threatening those who live high above the water in multimillion-dollar penthouses,” said climatologist and report author Dennis Gibson.

Pitchbot is on a roll today.

Matt’s decided to withdraw from the campaign. Hopefully word will get out. It’s too late to take his name off of the ballot.

Simple answers for simple people.

Oh joy. As if inflation wasn’t bad enough, now we get to pay tariffs levied on Canada because no one understands wildfire dynamics better than Trump. America is a clown show.

If Odysseus had just given his sailors testosterone injections, it wouldn’t have taken him 10 years to get home.

The entire planet is burning while Fairbanks continues to remain cooler than average as it has all year, and this summer sufficiently damp enough to keep the usual annual wildfires at bay. Asking @alaskawx.bsky.social for a rundown on why.

Both houses of congress have bills that would end federal funding for schools that don't conform to vaguely (and thus open to wide interpretation) guidelines for what books are appropriate. Christian homeschooling lists would essentially define the standard. Nationalized #BookBanning. Call now.

Acrobat's AI summary of my work-in-progress memoir about my first day in New Delhi in 1992 says I experienced personal danger there and also had a romantic relationship with a female friend I mention in passing during a flashback scene. Neither of these things are implied. I appreciated this though:

You can tell that I’m tail end Boomer generation because my ringtone is Smoke on the Water.

The spouse’s water glass is looking kind of evil.

Went to a lecture on book bans in libraries. One guy there was favorable towards them and said books can encourage aberrant behavior. Told the spouse and some friends afterwards that it’s true. I read On the Road when I was young and it cost me several years of my life. But I had fun.

If you feel like giving me A lifetime of revulsion I second that emulsion

This is a very good improvement for people’s health. More than once overseas I’ve been able to get medical care for minor ailments from a pharmacy. I’ve long thought it should be the case here. Now in Alaska it will be. Pharmacists have the skills to do these things.

The other night I was Googling “dos and don’ts in Laos” because I’m planning a trip to Southeast Asia right now, and these are the suggestions that popped up as soon as I had typed in “dos and don.” The basic ingredients for Mar-a-Lago Face are trending. Trying to imagine myself with lip filler.

I bought fresh produce today. I like to live dangerously.

Explosive diarrhea is the most apt metaphor 2026 could have ever found for itself.

Nobody handles RFK Jr. as well as the Onion. Also, remember when perineum sunning seemed as crazy as America could get? Innocent times. "Definitely stings a little, but pain is just mortality leaving the perineum."

#Instagram users: Meta, evil incarnate, is now using AI to steal your images. You have to set your account so it can't. Meta doesn't alert you. The user agreement gives them automatic access unless told otherwise. You'll have to fix it for yourselves. Please share. People need to know.

From the always insightful Anne Applebaum “Graham’s motivations remain a mystery. Perhaps he craved proximity to power. Perhaps he feared losing his Senate seat, and with it any claim to relevance. Deep down, though, he must have known he was betraying the ideals of his younger self.”

Another extrajudicial execution.

I’d argue that they look even worse from that angle.

It took just minutes after the announcement of Lindsey Graham’s death before the conspiracy theories began flying. The internet is not making us smarter.

At one time he had the opportunity to leave an honorable legacy behind him. Too late now.

Not sure when I might happen down to Anchorage again, but I need to put this joint on the itinerary for when I do. For those not in the know, Anchorage is a multicultural mecca. And despite present day opposition to such wonderful things, may it ever remain so.

You honestly haven’t lived until you’ve heard Mel Torme sing Sunshine Superman. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKD...

Iran has spent most of 2026 proving how weak and powerless America has become under the Trump Administration.

I bought a battery chainsaw a few years ago. I really like it. Perhaps my favorite part is that it doesn’t idle. Release the trigger and the engine stops immediately. With gas power you’re sending your stored energy out into the atmosphere between cuts. With battery all your energy goes to work.

Anyone with an IQ on the north side of 60 could have told you this.

“Like so many Americans, we had our concerns about Mitch, but when the technician unzipped that vinyl pouch and let me crawl in next to him, I knew there was nothing to worry about,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

Me: Unless you object, I’m going to eat the last brownie. The Spouse: You can have it. But that means you have to clean the pan. Me: I’m going to let you have the last brownie.

#Alaska #Alaskans Another nonfatal bear mauling. She had bird feeders in her yard. Something you never want to do in summer. Take them down and put them away if you haven’t already.