From Palin to Parnell

Hello, everybody. In just a matter of hours, a changing of the guard will transpire as Sarah Palin hands over the reins to Sean Parnell as he'll be officially anointed Alaska's 12th Governor.

Now this will happen at the annual Governor's Picnic here in Fairbanks tomorrow afternoon (Sunday), and Pioneer Park will no doubt be packed to the max as over 5,000 people are estimated to be there as well as media from all over the world covering the historic transition of power. By the way, Parnell will be sworn in on board the Nenana steamship around 3:00 p.m. (7:00 Eastern/4:00 Pacific), and security up and down the park will be tighter than...well, when Pope John Paul II and President Reagan dropped by here 25 years ago.

Of course, it will be quite a day, and I'll try to have a recap on Monday.

One of the week's other big stories falls on the topic of invasion of privacy, as peephole videos of ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews naked were splashed onto the Internet.

The backstory was that the videos have been online since February, but they were not known until this week when Andrews's legal eagles ordered them to be removed. A very interesting development came when they happened to be an inside job, filmed by somebody in the know at ESPN. Thankfully, that "somebody in the know" is not either Chris Berman or Stuart Scott; they wouldn't do such a thing! Erin won't be returning to work till September, when the whole scandal already dies down.

Seriously though, I think the creep behind those videos may have both went a little too far violating Andrews's private space as well as treating us to some real summer sporting action. I'm no pervert myself, but he did...go...all...the...way into showing the world that Erin Andrews does have a gorgeous body. So long and stay strong!