I'm still the bluest guy in my Alaska neighborhood and the reddest guy in my old Mass neighborhood.

I would rather be dealing with the yahoos of the left and the goons of the right in the U S anytime rather than the folks of Russia who poison you over lunch.

In the meantime, plenty of good old nasty politics of the kind we Yanks have known 'n loved for generations.

In the middle of last Winter we reeived a visit from the kind people who form Capitol Steps (if you haven't heard the Capitol Steps, buy all their live albums, they are great. The members came out as a group and THANKED us (Alaskan audience) for Sarah Palin. And when they specified her as our 'former' Governor the rather large audience cheered and cheered!

Speaking of Our Sarah, get ahold of HBOs movie last month "Game Change" Pretty decent. Sarah's got her problems, and the rest of her family is composed of media junkies and wh0res, but I prefer them to the humorless prevaricator known as Bachman, who is probably not done with her minutes of fame.

In the meantime, if you pay attention to the new TechWars, comes the story that the recent Stuxnet Virus was started by the Bush administration and continued under the Obama