We met our tour guide in front of the boat, an impossibly nice woman with a smile both constant and utterly sincere. She piled us into a minivan and drove us inland to the sandy shore of a river where a rubber raft was waiting, beside eight pairs of knee-high rubber boots, a bag of [...]
One unpleasant side-effect of being a cruise destination is the cankerous rash of tourist strips that inevitably blister the dockward side of your town. These places were my first impression of both Kitchican and Juneau, and they have an unfortunate homegenizing effect on a place: the weary sameness of ugly, repeated ad infinitum.
Or so I [...]
The good news is that, if you’re in the market for an ignorant xenophobic bigoted loudmouth, you can just stop by the nearest convenient McCain/Palin rally and pick one up. They won’t be hard to find.
The footage from inside these things is pretty entertaining — Palin giving the crowd that adorable smile of hers and [...]
I just finished listening to the best and clearest explanation I’ve heard yet of what caused the financial crisis, from This American Life. Check it out.
I’m fairly sure that I still don’t understand all the fundamentals here, but I think I know enough to come to some actual conclusions:
This is real. The problems are intricately [...]
Juneau is an odd city, and possibly the most uncapitalish looking capital I’ve ever seen. The main government center, behind tourist row, makes a sort of half-hearted attempt at gravitas: a city hall with the requisite set of doric columns, a modernish courthouse with dull brick walls and a glassed-in entrance protuberance on the ground [...]
Although Ketchikan has a population of only 7368, it is the fifth largest city in Alaska1. This is partly due to the vast tracts of wilderness and icy waste that dominate the Alaskan landmass, but mostly due to the Alaskan state slogan: The State with a Billion Billion Cities.
Late Alaskan governor Mad Sparky McJuddnick instituted [...]
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