Oh bro, you are so going to regret that in ten years.

I love politics, but there is NO candidate whose image I would ever even consider having permanently etched into my body.

Can you imagine this poor moron in about twenty years with the likenesses of about five failed candidates tattooed all over his body?

Gonna be such a babe magnet.

A very interesting tattoo with a very interesting hidden message.

Somehow I imagine that if you were the kind of person who would study his tattoo closely enough to see its message you may NOT be the kind of person for whom it would apply.

The President Obama Today Show interview that has gone viral.

I liked this interview, though I did think that the President let "W" off a little too easy. But then again he is known for his diplomacy.

That idea about the tattoos is hilarious, but he better be careful because his daughters might call his bluff.

My daughter for instance has been campaigning for us to get matching tattoos for years now.

She thinks it would be an awesome bonding experience, and I see it as the end of any chance for future romance in my life.

Hidden within the beauty of Alaska, sometimes lurks ugliness and terror.

Courtesy of the ADN:

The man accused of shooting a police officer Thursday at a hotel near Merrill Field later admitted to stealing cars and burglarizing homes to feed a heroin addiction, charges say. 

It was those Hillside break-ins police were investigating when Jason W. Barnum opened fire from a bathroom at the Merrill Field Inn, police say. His weapon: A handgun stolen in the recent burglaries and vehicle thefts, according the charges. One officer was lightly injured in the gunfire and is expected to return to work Tuesday. 

Two officers shot back, striking Barnum in the right arm, said Lt. Anthony Henry. 

Described by police as a "serial burglar," Barnum spent most of the past decade in prison on burglary and forgery convictions. The 37-year-old is now charged with attempted murder in the two-hour standoff that emptied the hotel, froze traffic on Fifth Avenue and drew nearly every on-duty police officer in the city.

How would you like to be standing next to THIS guy in the line at the bank?

You know I often work with the mentally ill and troubled youths of Alaska, and my first thought about this guy is that he probably fell through the cracks and wound up in the court system, probably as a juvenile, where he learned to self identify himself as an outsider in society and undoubtedly developed an antisocial personality disorder. That is IF he didn't have one already.

Nobody tattoos themselves like this if they feel socially connected to the world around them. And feeling that disconnect would of course would mean that he would have no compunction about stealing from others, and in fact most likely believed it was owed to him by a society that had abandoned him.

However though I may sympathize with his plight to some degree, as an Anchorage resident, and somebody who lives quite close to Hillside and Rabbit Creek, I am VERY glad to see this guy off the streets.

(P.S. If you so desire there are more unsettling pictures of  Jason W. Barnum to see here.)

From the "What in the hell were they thinking" file.

I don't care HOW drunk you got, there is just no excuse for that!

Just imagine, this poor bastard has to walk around wearing that butt ugly thing.

I guess there is no mystery as to why it is featured on blog called "Ugliest Tattoos."