Alaska Law Blog

The Alaska Law Blog is completely apolitical. We withhold our campaign contributions from the left and the right in equal measure. We have no agenda, save that which advances the cause of unmuddied legal thinking in the Last Frontier.

But sometimes, . . . sometimes the political circus overwhelms our studied apathy. The announcement yesterday on former Governor Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, and the frenzy thereby unleashed, have overtopped the restraints we have erected. The book hasn't even been released for the public to read yet and still every media outlet and blog is abuzz over it.

At the risk of being labeled partisan, we offer the following recycled poetry for your consideration:

Yesterday, broadcast out on the air,
I met the Governor who isn't there.
She isn't there again today,
I wish, I wish she'd stay away.

(Apologies to the late Hughes Mearns.)

But wait, you say. This blog post is not only politically charged, it has nothing to do with the law. It should not be allowed to sully the revered pages of the Alaska Law Blog!

You are wrong my friend. This book by the Governor-Who-Is-Not-There has yielded its co-author a handsome monetary advance. The upwelling tizzy over it will sell a great many copies and lead to a gutpile of royalties. (The book is already tops on Amazon's bestseller list.) With these earnings, the Governor-Who-Is-Not-There will be able to now pay a very large outstanding bill that she owes to the fine Alaska attorneys who successfully fended off the ethics complaints made against her. So there is a connection to the law after all.

And, even though the hullabaloo over this book is going to get very tiresome, anything that provides for the payment of large outstanding legal bills is, as a general rule, something that we at the Alaska Law Blog favor.