My baby’s mama – as they say in the urban contemporary scene these days – is in Alaska as we speak, showing off the grandchild and other festivities. Anyway, she reports that it’s crazy hot up there and the smoke from the forest fires make Fairbanks look like LA. It was pretty hot last year when I was up there, but apparently it’s been worse this year. Nobody can remember a summer like this. Anyway, I doubt global warming has much to do with it, but it is freaky hot up there. And sure as shinola we can expect another NY Times story about how Global Warming is destroying Alaska and how Sen. Ted Stevens needs more pork to fight it.