Don’t know if she’s a Nixon fan, but she has that victim thing down. All that’s missing from her statement was a “You won’t have Sarah Palin to kick around” line.

Why do you think she’s resigning? Is this the end of her political career?

Here’a an Anchorage blog that should keep you current as this develops.

This thread is your thread, this thread is my thread.

What are your grand old thoughts for the long holiday weekend?

About this painkiller news. Wonder if blog managers can get a waiver? I kid, I joke, I pop another pill.

What’s going on?

Spokane Raceway barely got under way before the operator fell behind on the bills.

Does this bother anyone?

As the new day dawned fresher than fabric-softened sheets, I endeavoured to ponder the stars for the deeper meaning of life, but the blasted sun blotted them from view. Epiphany postponed, I turned to the commenters here at A Matter of Opinion for insights into the issues of the day.

Well, what up?

Every year it seems as if June is the month that flies by the fastest, even quicker than February. Hoopfest has come and gone. Already. Wow.

What’s on your mind today?

Anybody lacing them up this weekend? Haven’t done a Hoopfest since the injury of 2000 in a game against KREM-2. Apparently, the achilles tendon shrinks as you get older. Remember to stretch.

What’s on your mind today?

Wow. And Walter Cronkite is ailing, too.

Michael here.

Farrah here.

Gotta try that Appalachian Trail some day, though it’s length is awfully intimidating.

What’s on your mind today?

He was a deeply disturbed man. Now we have a president that is from a mixed race couple. We’ve come a long way.

Nixon reacting to Roe v. Wade: “There are times when abortions are necessary — I know that… . Suppose you have a black and a white, or a rape.”

I guess it’s appropriate that the missing South Carolina governor would be in the land of The Missing. He disappeared for four days. His staff said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. He was in Buenos Aires. Strange.

What’s on your mind today?

UPDATE: Yet another politician having an affair. Should’ve known.

Summer is back!

Put your random thoughts here.

Federal grand jury indicts Officer Karl Thompson, who was the first officer to arrive at the Zip Trip. And this just days after the city said it was Zehm’s fault.

Two charges: Unlawful use of force and lying to investigators.

Thoughts?

Iran, health care, Kate and Jon …. oh my. Such a week for news.

What’s on your mind?

There’s a Zehm thread below.

Thoughts on other topics can go here.

Federal court asked to dismiss the case.

Reaction?

Took two days for end-of-school festivities. Good times.

Comment accepted here.

This item speaks for itself. Check it out here.  Do you think this girl has any grander goals, now that she’s achieved so much?

Spokane Mayor Mary Verner has made her choice for ombudsman.  What we need now is a weather ombudsman. 

What ombudsman vacancy would you like to see filled?

Or what’s on your mind in general?

I’ve been reading  about the Napoleonic wars and came across an anecdote about a British sailor named Robert Jeffery, who got in trouble for stealing rum and was dropped off on a Carribean island and left there.  After several years, the captain who ordered him left to die of starvation, was court-martialed in England.  It was assumed Jeffery had died, and he almost did, but he was rescued after 10 days by an American ship and eventually took up a career as a blacksmith in New England. Ultimately he returned to England for a joyous reunion with his mother and friends. And, oh yeah, he got back pay plus a 600-pound settlement for agreeing not to sue the captain.

That’s what’s on my mind. How about you?

As happened on Glenrose Prairie, some residents in the Indian Trail area across town are upset by plans for a youth baseball facility in their neighborhood. The arguments are familiar: traffic, noise, lights, vandalism. 

Are the planners dense and insensitive that they keep trying to shove these facilities into inappropriate locations, or are the neighbors unreasonable, expecting to shut down all land-use evolution once they’ve staked out their own personal territory?

Thoughts? Please share.

School is almost out for us. Is that good news or bad news in your family?

As always, put your random comments here.

Here comes the weekend.

Get those comments in here.

Palin mad at Letterman. Trump dumps Miss California.

Or you can comment on something important here.

Good ol’ Dave Ammons, veteran AP newsman turned flack for the Secretary of State. His blog is full of interesting tidbits, including the following, as stolen by me:

Sponsors of Referendum 71, the attempt to overturn legislation expanding domestic partner benefits, have had to design their petition like a fold up roadmap in order to comply with the law.

Because Senate Bill 5688 affected so many areas of state law where the rights and privileges of married couples are spelled out, it ran to 114 pages of text. By law, referendum petitions have to include every last word. By law, the petition has to be “readable” and on one sheet of paper.

The result, a document that unfolds to two feet by three feet and is printed in six-point type, which is hardly larger than agate.

Who wants to bet that anyone — ANYone — will read the whole thing before deciding whether to sign?

A man who suffered from a mental illness was Tazed along a Utah highway. He died. His father is in charge of putting together a conference for editorial writers in Salt Lake City, which is how I found out.

There has to be a better way.

Thoughts?

Put ‘er here!

Some perspective on what the world has been like ever since they’ve been alive.

Do you find it easy to relate to “today’s Utes?”

Well, that was a nice little rain.

Post your thoughts here.

Better late than …

Post your random musings here.