Black Racists of 2020 Winner Number 7. Robin DiAngelo Our WAZ researcher for this week is Cosmo Fury. Born with a contact lens in his third eye Cosmo, even as a kid was what school teachers, if they were kind, called an alternative thinker. These days he grows some of […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards Winner number eight is Nikole Hannah Jones, a wealthy, highly educated, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has made a lucrative career speaking and writing about black victimhood and white oppression. Our narrator is Al Purdy. Al’s a retired firefighter/EMT, who looks exactly like […]
Winner Number 9 Colorism Tonight’s speaker is Tommy O’Brien: a wiry 60ish man who walks the mountains alone, year round, far from trails, sometimes chest deep in snow, sometimes choosing routes that, if he slipped, no one here would ever know what became of Tommy. He likes to laugh and […]
San Diego: motto America’s Finest City San Diego Unified School District is the second largest school district in California . Jake Paresky was our WAZ researcher for number ten. Occupation: High school biology teacher. Qualifications: Began his career in Southern California in a school where half the kids started his […]
WAZ Citations Winner #1. Monica Cannon Grant 07.18.2020 Monica Cannon-Grant’s rant against Rayla Campbell was posted and re-posted on the net by various sources. A twitter thread reposted by Elijah Schaffer has 564.4 thousand views as of December 19, 2020. 07.18.2020 Monica Cannon-Grant, Racist BLM leader from Boston. Ayanna Pressley […]
‘And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the self-same day Noah said, “Well dang, it’s fall in Southeast Alaska.”’ Genesis 7 (mostly), King James Version. Lots of firewood seasoning articles tell you never to burn anything that’s more than 20% moisture and to stay […]
Three St. Patrick’s Day Treats: Irish Coffee, Irish Soda Bread, and the Dubliners. Irish pickup line: Darlin’ if you won’t come home with me the leprechauns have already won! Nearly 33 million Americans identify as Irish. That’s seven times more than there are Irish people in Ireland. Now here we […]
Hey, are kids still required to memorize things in school? School is supposed to teach the young ones what they need to know to be good citizens in this society. It used to be that everyone memorized the presidents, the states and capitals, multiplication tables to 12, Paul Revere’s Ride, […]
Part III in a series on outstanding volunteer-supported assets in the Capital City Awesome snow event this week. We were scooping knee deep powder off the driveway when a neighbor drove by, rolled down his window and yelled, “Forget that! Get your skis!” He was headed for Eaglecrest, Juneau’s community […]
Here are two seasonal breads that are always welcome at a solstice potluck or as drive-by gifts. Both include sourdough which gives a subtle flavor and changes consistency in a way that’s hard to describe but noticeable. I made them for years without sourdough so no worries if you don’t […]
A Christmas present arrived at our house a few years ago in early December. It wasn’t a package, it was a phone call from my brother who said, “You’ve got to watch this movie. It changed the way I think about Christmas.” I did watch that movie and I tell […]
Dies Natalis Solis Invictus “Birthday of the Unconquered Sun.” December 21st is the shortest day of the year in the north. Tonight’s an auspicious one, with a full moon and meteor showers. In Juneau we’ll get 6 hours, 22 minutes of daylight. At 1:22 p.m. there’s a celestial pause then […]