"There is now a live stream of bears gathering to eat salmon at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park."

Lovely! It's not dark yet in Alaska, so you can see the bears right now.

Why doesn't the word "Alaska" appear in this NYT column perceiving that Sarah Palin has some ideas liberals should like?

Anand Giridharadas seems surprised by a speech she gave recently. [I]n contrast to the sweeping paeans to capitalism and the free market del...

The mysterious orange goo found in Alaska is... eggs!

But what creature's eggs, we don't know. The eggs were found on at least one roof and in buckets set all over the village to collect...

"The Undefeated" — that movie about Sarah Palin — unwittingly shows why she's not a good candidate for President.

As you know, I saw the movie last week and thought that as a movie, it was pretty bad. It's a separate question — though Palin fans hav...

Did you watch "Sarah Palin's Alaska"?

I watched for about 20 minutes. I might have been interested in a reality show — more like "The Osbournes" — where we see some sem...

"Who is this woman, this fruit bat in fleece and Gore-Tex, clenching the side of the rock face above a glacier..."

"... screaming 'Tahhd! Tahhd!' at her husband, piercing the tranquillity of the Alaskan paradise?" The Washington Post sta...

How misspelled can a write-in vote for Murkowski be before it shouldn't be counted at all?

Joe Miller is arguing for 100% correct spelling. Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell, who oversees Alaska elections, has indicated that he will accept ...

"Just hours before the final deadline, more than 100 Alaskans came out Thursday to file as write-in candidates..."

"... in an effort to thwart Sen. Lisa Murkowski's bid to retain her Senate seat."

"How Lisa Murkowski (might have) lost."

Explaining Joe Miller.

Did Sarah Palin just come out in support of the federal marriage amendment?

She says: "[I]n my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Cons...

Sarah Palin's most famous quote and the problem of a quote becoming famous in a misremembered form.

What do you think is Sarah Palin's most famous quote? My attempt to answer gets me to a quote that I know is not the real quote: "I...

"This woman is an Obama-level political natural."

Says Megan McArdle. Indeed. It's like some bizarre nightmare/dream (depending on your party preference). The Dems had Obama, and then.....

Live-blogging night 3 -- Sarah Palin alert! -- of the Republican Convention.

5:43 Central Time: I'm just setting this up so you can get started talking and to let you know that I'll be here -- on what is obvio...

About Bristol Palin's pregnancy: "People are looking for real. Real means blemishes, real means warts, real means real."

Says Mark Sanford , the Governor of South Carolina, spinning the news. "These family imperfections make people say, 'That family is...

If Alaska were a city, it would be...

Fort Worth. *** States ranked by population. Cities ranked by population.

"The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico combined..."

"... and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years, the U.S. Geological Survey said. One-third of the undiscovered oil is in Alaskan te...

Does a male bird have a...

... uh, probably not. 97% don't. Oh, but those ducks... The champion phallus from this Meller’s duck is a long, spiraling tentacle. Som...

Life in Canada.

The NYT reports: The Inuit are a traditionally nomadic people who migrated about 1,000 years ago from western Alaska toward what is today Ar...

The ridiculous fear of ridicule.

CNN reports: Islamic anger over newspaper depictions of the Prophet Mohammed is boiling over into violence around the world, with protesters...

Cross-country driving mania.

Yesterday, I did a post on long cross-country drives, which is a special little mania of mine. The post brought this email: I once drove st...