One Hot Mess

It happens every year in Alaska, maybe a little less reliably now with winter being somewhat of an endangered species.

I have not written a long-form blog post in more than two years.

James Brooks' September 18 piece in the Alaska Beacon about an $800,000 compensation study aimed at solving the State’s hiring and retention woes reflects a certain level of denial and myopia in the executive branch.

"You don’t know fear until you have kids.”

In December of 2018, I was illegally fired from my job as an Alaska Assistant Attorney General by the Dunleavy administration, three hours after the new governor was sworn into office.

(This post contains spoilers, but that’s like saying there’s some mold on milk that’s been out on the counter for a week).

I've been on a big Billy Joel kick lately.

One of the more distressing aspects of parenting is that you can never predict what your kids will remember.

It's not an exaggeration to say that.

I won’t lie you guys.

I don't want to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, which is one of the reasons I don't have a disaster prep kit.

I'm turning 45 this year, which is comfortably middle age, if not beyond.

Ok my dudes.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redre…

I’m turning 45 this year and here are 45 things I’ve learned.

This is not an original idea.

13 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT LEARN IN LAW SCHOOL Whether you represent government clients or private clients, there are certain strategies to practicing law that you might not learn in law school.

Yesterday, I was on a three-person text thread with another Jewish nihilist friend of mine and one Gentile (this sounds like the start of a walk-into-a-bar joke, but it's not), and somehow--shockingly-- us two Jews veered off into the end of the world: wh…

To WHO it May Concern, And by WHO, we literally mean WHO—the World Health Organization—which has crossed yet another line by naming yet another variant of the deadly COVID-19 virus after one of our 24 esteemed members.

I posted about this topic earlier, but I think it deserves the long-form treatment.

There have been at least seven events in 2021 in which Alaskan antisemitism has been on display: 1.

The fact is I did not almost die on 9/11.

“My Facebook feed has gotten about 40% less angry since Libby Bakalar got that hedgehog.”

Dear Alaska's Healthcare Workers, Doctors, nurses, therapists, aides, first responders, custodial staff and their families—please know that you are all so deeply appreciated, and very much needed in this moment.