Extreme recycling

I woke up today to so much absurdity I can barely stand it.

Let’s start with politics. In Michigan, the tea bagger government has taken another step into lala land. Instead of raising taxes on people who can afford it, Republicans in power began selling off public facilities to private corporations: several schools to charter organizations and closed the most successful school in the country for pregnant teens, one that has a 98 percent graduation rate and 100 percent college acceptance rate. On top of it when faculty and pregnant students along with graduates with their children staged a sit-in to protest, they were arrested.

In Anchorage this past week there was one of the oddest twists yet on what we call here a Spenard Divorce. A woman who lived with another for around 20 years apparently killed her friend with a shotgun. According to the reports the roommate wouldn’t get out of bed to help her friend to the bathroom so that one pulled out a shotgun and blew her away. BTW Spenard is a former suburb that Anchorage finally grew and consumed, but it retains its reputation as a unique section with endless stories of absurdity. A Spenard divorce is usually executed by a wife who has grown tired of dealing with a recalcitrant husband and shoots him. They usually happen in early spring when people lose patience with how long it is taking for the weather to get warm and friendly.

Which leads into the most absurd of all. Talk about your recycling. A fellow who claimed to be one of the founders of Earth Day is now serving a life sentence for killing his former girlfriend and attempting to dispose of her body by COMPOSTING. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. There are so many directions to go with that story but in deference to a few of my own exes, I will just let the tale tell itself. Here’s that story. But just to clear up any potential conjecture, yes, they all survived and i have never had a successful garden either.

Just one more for good measure: On the day between Good Friday and Easter, what the Anchorage Daily News has chosen to highlight on its Twitter feed is that today is Scoop Poop Day for people to go out and clean up the winter's dog leavings. Will that work in a compost pile? The ambiguity is on purpose in case you were wondering.

So, with that said, I have survived another Good Friday in Alaska. That’s 38 now with only one having been a disaster. Some have suffered two.