an isolated town in an isolated state ....

An isolated town?  I thought he said they considered moving the Capital to Wasilla because Juneau was isolated!  Why would they move it from one isolated town to another?

That'st the beauty of leftists when they argue.  They cheerfully contradict themselves from one paragraph to another without batting an eyelash.

Grasping at straws.....no flimsy criticism left unspoken.

Does one expect from THE MOST left leaning "newspaper" in the People's Republic of CT-Stan which many critics have labeled The Hartford Koran't.

On the other side of the spectrum, there is The Waterbury Republican-American.  Take it from someone who has lived in the million-dollar milqtoast marxist enclave of Greenwich most of his 34 years...AND HATING IT.  My paper the Greenwich Time is just an extension on the Koran't especially on editorials. The Rep-Am features some incredible local editorials and comments from conservatives like Charles Krauthammer, Mona Charen and George Will

Growing up middle class in a town known for opulence and excess, our family may as well be considered poor!

Speaking of Krauthammer, who created the phrase Bush Derangement Syndrome, the corporate fascist media is suffering from what some will call, if not done so already Palin Derangement Syndrome.  Believe me, the media was the first in on this, thencome the silver spoon socialists in Hollywood!

This is it??!!! This is all the angry left can come up with?

Oh, they are DOOMED in November!

I know of a couple of moderate "swing voters" who are planning to vote for McCain/Palin simply becasue they are pissed at all the smears and cheap-shots that the media have taken against Palin since her nomination.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

is not the problem, here.  [OK, I am biased as a Geologist and as a Geology teacher, albeit at a junior college.]  BTW, to those outside of this field, Geology is the study of the Earth (and its processes and history), not just rocks.

Yes, despite their science backgrounds and supposed practice of logic, Geologists can be infected by liberalism.  It happens.  [I am dismayed by the number of blogging Geologists that buy into the Anthropogenic Global Warming hoax, when carbon dioxide constitutes just 0.038% of the atmosphere.]

I haven't yet read the Thorson piece nor have I looked at any sort of archives to see if he regularly writes for this particular "news outlet".

If he had done his fieldwork/homework and backed up his assertions with facts (or at least learned opinions), he wouldn't seem such a dunce.  Maybe he is just looking for a "new angle of attack" not yet tried by "professional" journalists.

Geology and Geography are closely related (I have an unofficial minor in Geography as part of my M.S. degree), but his "geography judgements" seem clouded by his seeming "liberal" distain/disgust for small town residents.  Does he honestly believe this or has he adopted northeast, blue-state, academic ivory-tower attitudes to keep his job (or to gain favor) at his particular institute?

In summary, I would blame Robert Thorson's liberalism for his attitudes and journalistic failings, not his being a Geologist.

I would be extremely upset if I were paying this idiot my good money to teach my child geology. He obviously has no clue about how to apply the scientific method to everyday life and therefor I must conclude that he is clueless about it's application in his chosen profession.

These are the types of 'scientists' that give the others a bad name. I have no doubt that he is an avid member of the Anthropogenic Global Warming club since using old bad data and jumping to illogical and unfounded percipitous conclusions seems to be where his expertise lies.

UCONN has just been crossed of the list of possible colleges that my children can choose from.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

From his 6-19-08 Courant column:

"I have a dream — that one day our freeways will be free of traffic jams, and that our exit ramp culture will have given way to one based on real communities that live together, rather than park together. Only then will I believe the price of gasoline is high enough. "

Sounds to me like he's pining to live in Wasilla. Just another angry, insulated Edu-lib. Stick to rocks, Professor - let the MSM handle the heavy lifting.

I was told when I was up there that the reason they kept Juneau  the capitol was the very fact it was hard to get in and out of.  The natives told me that they figured if could keep the politicians bottled up in one spot they would be easier to keep an eye on.

The left's paranoia is about rural America. It cracks me up. I have some very liberal friends. I have spent the last decade traveling throughout my adopted home state of Kentucky.

My liberal friends ask me things like, "don't you get scared working with those people by yourself?"

I've offered to take them with me to some of the places I work, but they refuse. They are scared to death to get off the interstate highways and would never stop at a crossroads general store to get some RC colas and Moon Pies (I've had some of my most enlightening political discussions over that combination). They are convinced that I'm going to turn up dead as the result of gunshot wounds.

I have a co-worker who gets nervous when he sees a pickup with a NRA sticker in the window (he's unable to set foot on my property).

The irony is that they have no fear of another terrorist attack. They fear their fellow Americans, but they see no threat from Islamic terrorists.

They have the nerve to imply that I'm paranoid. I always quote Frank Burns to them: "I'm only paranoid because everyone is against me." They don't see my point. They are the ones who are paranoid.

This dope from Connecticut exposes the left's paranoia.

When Barry Hussein made his statement to the gathering in San Francisco about us "clingers" in the rural area, I wasn't surpised in the least. Those comments are completely consistent with people on his side of the political divide.

That presumption on the left is not lost on rural America, either. We know how we are perceived in the cities and on the coasts, and voters in these regions consider that when they cast their ballots. I've always used Kentucky as a bell-weather state when it comes to politics. If it is a bell-weather state this year, Barry is going to get creamed.

Excuse me. I've got to go cling to my guns and Bible for the rest of the day.

Does a thimble brained jester like this actually get paid when the editors botch their jobs.

What did he get for this tripe? $30? $50? $200?

I spent two weeks in Anchorage Alaska sixteen years ago and I found the place to be very beautiful and breathtaking. I also discovered that Alaskans are very proud of their roots and their state. If anything, I found them similar to Texans in a sense that when you mess with one, you mess with all. There is unity there and divergence of cultures, adding to its flavor. This writer conveniently lumps all people in Wasilla in a mold that was cast by all the MSM and BO in his infamous angry "people clinging to their guns and bibles" [paraphrased quote]. A slippery slope of an argument if there was one.