A couple of days ago The Huffington Post did a video roundup of GOP VP pick, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The videos were of her comments on important issues relating to Alaska. Well anyone can do that. But tell me, have you seen clips of Governor Palin back when she was a sportscaster? Or watched as she hiked to her office from her house with a local Alaskan podcaster? Or heard what the Red State Update has to say about the moose hunting firebrand? That's where I come in.

Officials say the Justice Department has indicted Alaska Senator Ted Stevens on "seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home," according to MSNBC. Stevens has been under investigation by the FBI and the IRS for alleged corruption based on his relationship with an oil service executive who has pled guilty to bribing Alaskan legislators.

Molly from the Alaska food blog Batter Splattered She writes: "One Sunday not too long ago, my friend Angie and I set out to answer the question of what do two girls do with a great big old pickup truck recently purchased for a scream of a deal for $800? They take it off-road, that's what they do. Or more specifically, we took it down a rutted not-quite-wide-enough-to-qualify-as-one-lane old mining road, lined on both sides by willow branches that screeched down the sides of the truck leaving scores of scratches (oops)." ~ To learn what's at the end of the road, read about Molly's Top-Secret Blueberry Patch BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg learned the 'no picky, no eaty' rule young, picking blueberries with her grandmother, and this time of year, tosses frozen berries into an easy blueberry pie called a blueberry galette from her food column Kitchen Parade.