They Fight Crime!: "He's a globe-trotting neurotic waffle chef whom everyone believes is mad. She's a warm-hearted cigar-chomping stripper with the power to see death. They fight crime! "  11:17:52 PM     Add a comment   

Holy crap, this is creepy. While browsing a photography website, I clicked on the "desktop of the day' link, and ended up looking at a nude picture of one of my female friends posing in front of an Anchorage landmark.

I'd seen the picture before. It's was a taken by a famous photographer and is fine art photography, not porn, but still... Weird.

PS - No, I'm not going to post the link.  10:14:47 PM     Add a comment   

It's nice to see someone standing up to bullies.  8:51:02 PM     Add a comment   

Sometime last night someone stole the majority of the Alaska State House, a political body that has already proven themselves to have the common sense of a 8 week old puppy, and replaced it with a body of take-this-job-and-shove-it-esque orangutans.

Anchorage Daily News | Income tax plan is likely to pass:

"But Lower 48 tax experts find the bill bizarre.

Since federal income taxes were first enacted during World War I, the public policy principle behind the tax is to take from those who can afford it, said Sexton, the economist who helps run the Center for State and Local Taxation in Davis, California.

Other states that have tried to soften the impact on high-earners have passed flat income taxes that apply the same rate regardless of income. An income tax rate that actually falls as earnings rise would be unique in the nation, she said

"It's bizarre and, I can assure you, entirely unique," said Terri Sexton, an economics professor and expert on state taxation at California State University at Sacramento."

PROBLEM NUMBER ONE: The people of the state have said over and over and over again that they don't want an income tax until the state legislature cuts spending.

PROBLEM NUMBER TOOP: The legislature targets their ill conceived and incredibly unpopular tax right at the heart of the middle class, by far the largest voting block.

Hello, is anybody home down there in Juneau? Have you forgotten that the idea of politics, at least as it is usually practiced, is to get reelected? Oops, forget I said. The sooner you morons get voted out, the better.

Want to do something the legislature's latest hair brain scheme? Find your legislator and email them. Then, come November, VOTE the clowns out of office.  8:12:49 PM     Add a comment