Archive for April, 2006
I promised it, now here it is, my take on the debate and the candidates. As always, this is my opinion, and I may be wrong in every one of my assumptions. Miracles do happen, ha ha. Daniel Lloyd Neste Huffman: Look, I'm ecstatic this guy's in the race. He's a fun addition to the [...]
3:15 Here we are! The debate. It does look like Morrison will be here. Good for him to rise to the challenge of a face-to-face confrontation with Missoula's favorite blogger, Touchstone! In fact, unlike the Bozeman debate, it looks like all the candidates except Conrad Burns will be here tonight. The candidates: Daniel Lloyd Neste [...]
Today will be a slow day because…I'm going to the debate! I'll have my computer with me and hopefully be able to write up a summary as the debate rages…'tho I'm going to miss Morrison. On with the links! Must watch trailer for a new spinoff of “V is for Vendetta”: “C is for Cookie.” [...]
Count on Dave Budge to respond quickly to anything that challenges his world-view. In his post, “Allow me to Disabuse,” he pretty much trashed me up and down in his post. Fine. Maybe not fairly, but who am I to complain? To respond to everything would be a waste of time. Let’s stick with healthcare. [...]
It’s no-holds-barred Wulfgar! today! First he calls John Morrison a “p*ssy,” then he points out the…*ahem*…formerly adulterous candidate is a proponent of Montana’s anti-gay “defense of marriage” amendment to the state constitution. You make your own snark. Montana Jones has a tangle with the phone company. They won’t let him activate his analog phone, which [...]
Today’s creep, Mike Dey of Missoula, was an easy target. His letter: Motherhood out of wedlock is dangerous Every day when I turn on the radio I hear this ad that says that the most dangerous thing we do is not putting our children in a booster seat. After some thought I came to the [...]
Uh oh. Looks like the quality of my blog is falling off. Last time I checked in with a report on what brings Internet surfers to my site, it was a search for "erotic liberated Christian blogs." Now it's "male chastity belt blogs." Do you think I'm restraining myself too much?
Oops! Sorry about that. US to free 141 from Guantanamo. So…how long did we hold them? And…they’re innocent? And we did what to them? Looks like the new conservative PM of Canada is following the Bush administration’s reprehensible practice of ignoring their dead soldiers killed in Iraq…“[Candada] I used to think you were cool.” Indeed. [...]
So I suppressed my ego and trudged over to Budge’s site to read his rebuttal to my earlier post on government. Interesting stuff, and shows some of the essential misunderstanding — deliberate or otherwise — found in libertarian and conservative camps when considering liberal policies or ideas. First I would say that our current form [...]
I finally went out and saw “V is for Vendetta.” Yes, I know it’s pathetically late. H*ll, even Ed Kemmick’s seen the flick! But what can I do? I have toddler twins. As it was I had to go alone to a 10pm showing, which meant I got about four-and-a-half hours of sleep last night. [...]
These are the kind of people you find on the right. I haven’t seen many Stalinist trolls on my site… Support for torture is found exclusively on the right. Haven’t seen many folks on the left who support inhumane treatment of prisoners. Bush’s approval rating sinks. Lower than Clinton’s ever was… Digby on the contractor [...]
In a recent conversation on the upcoming midterms over at conservative site, mtpolitics, Gman left a comment trashing Matt Singer’s liberal worldview by calling it “immoral.” Now I agree with Matt on most issues. So I took…well, not offense…but I disagreed with the premise. I don’t think my views are “immoral.” I also don’t think [...]
Two letters appearing recently in the Missoulian touted the work of Clemens Work, who is busy clearing the names of many who were criminalized under Montana’s infamous WWI Sedition Act, and decrying a recent paranoid attack on Work’s work by Missoula man, Harvey Weinstein. (A recent 4&20 “creep.”) First a nice letter from Richard Barrett [...]
Guam: Burns earmarked $20 mil to a friend of Delay in an appropriations bill. Burns: Guam lies. Holy smokes! Intelligent Discontent has a slew of new Conrad Burns news! First Boss Hogg gives a million bucks to a company that puts his daughter and a former staffer on its board. Then there’s a WaPo article [...]
A few thoughts while I wait in the SearsAuto lobby waiting for a tire to be patched… L'affaire Morrison I've said this before, I'll say it again, I haven't really come to a conclusion on who I'm endorsing in the Senate race. At least based on issues, electibility, gut, astrological forecasts, etc & co. It'd [...]
This week's New Yorker had some nice things – amazing things, actually, and quite true – to say about Al Gore. The piece, “Ozone Man,” by David Remnick started with a plug of Gore's new documentary on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which despite some clunky film making, too much of Al Gore staring out [...]
Okay. I admit it. I am often irritated in Boston Globe sports columnists' periennial sour take on anything Red Sox. Take today's column by Bob Ryan, "Will ounce of prevention be the best medicine?" In the column, Ryan sees only future troubles in the Sox' second-best record in MLB, a paltry half-game behind the Mets. [...]
In today's Billings Gazette, reader Daniel Hathaway asks a simple question: Seems strange that GOP should vilify Hillary Clinton After hearing Sen. Burns' new political ad, I was struck with the question, why do the conservatives hate Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy so much? I recognize Ted Kennedy had a scandal involving the death of Mary [...]
Upcoming 60 Minutes will be about how the White House ignored WMD intelligence. I’m shocked, shocked! A Fox News poll has Bush at a new low! Thirty-three percent approval! Holy smokes! Salon’s Conason on attacking Iran: “Are They Nuts?” Oops! White House announcer calls Communist China by the wrong name, using the name of its [...]
Picture of the protester at the White House welcoming ceremony for Chinese president, Hu Jintao. While I do understand that diplomatic events must have shelter from public protests, I'm glad somebody rattled the cage a little. I'm a little nervous about our nation's cozy relations with China, a Communist authoritarian state that holds our econonmic well-being [...]
Much has already been made in the Montana blogosphere over the John Adams story in the Missoula Independent over unaswered questions in Morrison's handling of his office's investigation of a husband of a former mistress for security violations. The basic gist of the article is this: Morrison's office was extraordinarily lenient on David Tacke considering [...]
Today’s creep is a fellow resident of Missoula, a certain Martin E. Weinstein who apparently doesn’t understand his basic civil liberties. In fact, Mr. Weinstein’s logic was so ridiculously hypocritical and convoluted, I almost forgave him the title of “creep,” which I like to reserve for people who are aware of their meanness of spirit. [...]
Wulfgar’s! second take on the Democratic Bozeman debate. Matt Singer has a dead on take of the “new American right.” Speedkill’s political platform is available for viewing! Now all we need is a primary and a logo. How about…a banana slug? a moose? tortoise? Meanwhile, while Burns’ office complains about the “Hollywood” money going to [...]
Here's an interesting editorial co-authored by Democratic Senators Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton that is definitely a step in the right direction towards bridging the gap between the opposing sides in the debate. Basically they realize that both sides want to decrease abortion. We believe that it is necessary for all Americans to join together [...]
In the most recent links post, I put up a link to Rolling Stone's latest cover story by Princeton professor, Sean Wilenz, "The Worst President in History?" When I first saw the magazine cover, I assumed I'd be in for a gonzo-esque romp of rhetorical excess and snarkiness. Imagine my surprise when the article proved [...]
Sorry about the lack of posts recently. I’ve had a rough couple of days. Wife was in Oregon until yesterday afternoon, leaving me to handle the twins by myself. And last night my daughter (let’s call her “Ms. Marvelous,” like she prefers) caught a “stomach ‘flu” – which is a nice way of saying I [...]
The biggest story in baseball no one’s talking about – distracted as they are by Barry Bonds – is where Roger Clemens will play baseball this summer. So far, he’s been noncommittal about his future. He’s hinted he’s done. But anyone that knows Roger Clemens knows he’s going to play one last summer. He’s competitive, he’s arrogant, [...]
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