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Jim Albrecht pens an enjoyable defense of the Alaska of his childhood. While it’s tangentially a defense of Sarah Palin, it’s really just good fun. One of the more serious lines:

Wilderness has a bully pulpit all its own, and, back when we could still hear it over the cell phones and the four-stroke snow machines, it preached a repetitive sermon. 1) We don’t all have to agree about everything, 2) but we do all have to survive the winter. If the Alaska of my childhood could be put on the stump, I believe that would be the content of its speech.