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So there's a huge thing floating of the coast of Alaska and this is what their saying about it: “It's certainly biological.” “It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter.” Also “someone turned in what was left of a dead goose — just bones and feathers — to the borough's wildlife department.”
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Science Buzz The hilariously named Mount Redoubt volcano erupted multiple times late last night, blowing a plume of smoke and debris 20-50,000 feet into the air. Anchorage is safe so far, but residents are buying breathing masks and stocking up on water and Ramen just in case.
Nothing to do with Sarah Palin, I promise. Just a bear, waving hi, like they do before they viciously attack. Don't be fooled!
Prom flowers are the new $2500 Valentino jacket. Or maybe she just threw herself an Inaugural Ball of One in Wasilla.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/54781.html
The Anchorage Daily News has endorsed Barack Obama. Maybe Sarah Palin should have read more newspapers.
The New Yorker cleverly points out that the distance to Russia from the governor’s mansion in Juneau, Alaska, is about 1,200 miles.
Science Buzz Eighteen Alaskan scientists are on a mission to exterminate an enormous population of Norway rats that have overtaken Rat Island, a tiny island at the end of the Aleutian chain. The rats, who will soon face $3 million worth of tiny toxic pebbles, jumped off a shipwrecked Japanese ship sometime in the 18th century and have been breeding like coeds ever since.
Attention John McCain, Attention John McCain! Diddy thinks you’re bugging the f*** out. He’s also not sure if there are any black people in Alaska. No disrespect.
Politics Buzz Alaska’s governor is suddenly everyone’s favorite politician of 2007. A pot smoking, moose burger eating former beauty queen (Miss Wasilla 1984!) who recently posed for a Vogue shoot, Palin is the anti-Bush, popularity-wise. Update: McCain selects Sarah Palin as his VP! Crazy.