Sarah Palin Comes From Awesome, AK
A weird that thing about Republicans, especially those who claim to hate the government so much, is that they rarely turn their anti-government activism into creating awesome, anarchistic societies where people could shoot guns all day, do a lot of recreational drugs and not annoy anyone else. Well apparently, there’s a part of Alaska like this, and it’s where Palin hails from. This is from a Matt Welch interview with Democratic, civil libertarian activist Bill Scannell.
Q: I was just talking to someone who claimed to have knowledge of Alaska to some degree, and they say where Sarah Palin comes from it’s the equivalent of Humboldt or Chico in California, like,of course, you know, she’d have a Girls Gone Wild phase, and smoking pot. Is this just wishcasting, or what can you tell us about her geographical background?
A: So the Mat-Su Valley, you know, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, otherwise known as Upper Wingnuttia, is full of right-wing libertarian militia fundamendalist Christian gun-toting, pot-growing dope-heads.
Q: Awesome.
A: Yeah. If Jerry Falwell rolled his own, you would have the Mat-Su Valley. I live in South Anchorage, and my raspberry plants, courtesy of 22 hours of daylight in the summer, grow eight and a half foot high. That’s a raspberry bush. Can you imagine what a single pot plant would turn into? [...]
