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Conservatives for Palin & civility: Fairly unbalanced

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Is it really a good thing to be complimented for "courage" by a blogger at the Conservatives for Palin website? Well, mainly it's a lot of work. It's nice to be called courageous, sure, but even better is to be represented honestly and in context.

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged AKMuckraker, Brian the Moose, civility, Conservatives for Palin (blog), Gryphen, Immoral Minority (blog), lgbtq, Max Blumenthal, Mike Doogan, Mudflats (blog), Palin ethics complaints, Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Rich Crowther, Sarah Palin, Sean Parnell, Things I did instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR) | 6 Comments

My story of 2009

By Mel | Published: Friday, 1 January 2010

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

Posted in About writing, Alaska justice system, Alaska politics, Cold, Depression, Journal, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo, Ordinance, True Diversity Dinner | Also tagged Alaska Commons, Alaska Judicial Council, Alaska Legislature, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Anchorage Press, Arliss Sturgulewski, Bent Alaska, cave, Celtic Diva, Columbia Sussex, couch, Crossed Genres, Dad, Dan Sullivan, Dave, death, Eddie Burke, Floridana Alaskiana v2.5, Grandpa Claude, Green family, Green-Lieght family, grey, Grrlzlist, Heather Aronno, Hilton Anchorage, hotel workers, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, James Bopp Jr., Jane Angvik, Janson Jones, Jesse, John Aronno, Julius, lgbtq, LGBTQ allies, Linda Kellen Biegel, Mark, Mark Begich, Melz published work, Mer, Miller v. Carpeneti, Mom, my apartment, NaNoWriMo 2009, Nicholas Hughes, One in 10, Palin ethics complaints, PrideFest, Progressive Alaska (blog), Ptery, Sarah Palin, Sean Cockerham, SOSAnchorage.net, Stef Gingrich, Summer of Hate, sunflowers, True Diversity Dinner 2009, Väi the cat, veto, Vic Fischer, violence against women, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR), writing | 2 Comments

Alaska newspaper editorials against WAR

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 16 April 2009

At least one of Alaska’s daily newspapers have come out editorially against the confirmation of Wayne Anthony Ross to be Alaska’s attorney general: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner — “Reject Ross: Nominee for top legal post is wrong man for the job” (April 16) The ADN is doesn’t really like him, but is quite a bit more week-kneed: Anchorage Daily [...]

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged Alaska, Alaska politics, antigay, politics, Sarah Palin, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR) | Leave a comment

WAR’s antigay letter to the Alaska Bar Association, 1993

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009

You’ve heard about it, now here it is: the famous letter written by Wayne Anthony Ross to the Alaska Bar Association and published in the Alaska Bar Rag in the early 1990s (turns out it was 1993) which referred to LGBTQ Alaskans as “degenerates.” My friend Steve passed it to me earlier today after an [...]

Posted in Alaska politics, LGBTQ history | Also tagged Alaska, Alaska Bar Association, Alaska politics, Anchorage, antigay, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR) | 3 Comments

Anti-WAR letter: Opposing Wayne Anthony Ross

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 14 April 2009

I’m a writer-blogger, not a political blogger — though I did try it out a little last fall after Palin became a vice-presidential candidate. But it proved too emotionally exhausting for me, & other Alaska progressive bloggers were doing it better. Sometimes, though, you gotta take a stand on something. So here’s the [...]