Alaska “Mushing Mortician,” Scott Janssen, and pathologist friend Jim Lanier are now fully recovered from their near-death experience of March, and the 2018 Alaska Iditarod Trail Sled Dog seems already ancient history. […]
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AK-pocalypse
Dear pussy bedwetters, Times are tough in Alaska. Global warming is over. The next Ice Age is on the horizon. The oil rush is history. You’re not going to get rich quick […]
Pressicide
The greatest threat to democracy in the United States today isn’t delusive Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States who either can’t tell fact from fiction or doesn’t care. The […]
China’s fish
News analysis The national seafood media was Monday atwitter with speculation China might impose tariffs on American seafood, and Alaska Commissioner of Commerce Mike Navarre was trying to spin the state’s proposed […]
Ban scary
Commentary The United States is a country where appearance matters – matters a lot; a country where fears sometimes run wild; and a country today caught up in a pre-occupation with self. […]
Idit-a-fable
Commentary This story has been updated The Washington Post used to a be a newspaper you could respect, or at least I could. My journalism career began in the Watergate era when […]
Tell me a lie
Commentary The time has come to accept that many people want fake news even if they don’t admit it. The time has to come recognize many people need fake news even if they don’t […]
For the dogs
Commentary If – as the modern Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race likes to claim – the event is “all about the dogs,” the time has come for The Last Great Race to […]
#Whatclickbait
This story has been updated with a general location of the sighting. Clickbait used to be the prey of shabby journalists and “some blogger probably sittin’ there in their parent’s basement wearing […]
Nature did it
News analysis The Ice Age ended almost 12,000 years ago, and yet – if a team of German and Norwegian scientists are to be believed – it continues to influence earth’s […]
