Don’t forget the Montana Food Bank!
Rumblings and rumors: is Sideshow Scott Sales headed for a back bench?
Here’s another worthy state expenditure: after-school programs. They cut down significantly on juvenile crime and lower court and policing costs. No brainer.
Do you live in Montana? Sarpy Sam has a handy checklist, compliments of Jeff Foxworthy.
Montana’s next big author, Christopher Paolini. I actually thought the series was decent and probably will see the flick…
There’s been a lot of love for Pinochet lately, hasn’t there? Remember, some of the same people who tout the toppling of Saddam Hussein also actively supported Pinochet in the 1970s.
Tom Paine’s Marc Mauer writes of the need for US prison reform in “Incarceration Nation.”
William Cronon urges environmentalists to consider other types of nature other than pristine wilderness, suggesting that the key to forming broad support lies in this worldview.
Kos on the Democrats and the lobbyists. It wasn’t enough that we got them there, now we have to watch ‘em like hawks.
Interview with Sherrod Brown, who wants to go after Big Pharma. I like him already.
And so begins the campaign to smear Barack Obama. Man, this is shameful.
Another Bush aiming for the nation’s top job? Ugh. Didn’t we learn our lesson after the first two?
Apparently tired of blaming Bill Clinton for everything, conservatives reach back in time and find another Democratic President to fault for everything they’ve f*cked up.
Of course, most people aren’t dumb. They know just who’s responsible for the mess that’s Iraq.
Intriguing thought: what if winning the war on terror is not the goal? It’s true that trigger-happy conservatives have been restless since the collapse of the Soviet Union…
Part 2 of Dave Neiwert’s series on eliminationism in America: “The urge to eliminate.” (Ugh. Poor title. Sounds like a bowel movement.)
Jon Stewart bids the 109th Congress good bye…and good riddance.
Mike takes his wife out to a Birthday dinner – in Minneapolis. Hilarity ensues.
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December 12, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Here’s another worthy state expenditure: after-school programs. They cut down significantly on juvenile crime and lower court and policing costs. No brainer.
Funny heh? Yeah, I would use this opportunity to remind everyone about that fact that the Montana GOP put Rick Jore at the head of the house Education Committee when these are hid views on that:
Rick Jore does not support increasing state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth
This is from his answer to the Project Vote Smart Questionair and fits in with the rest of his twisted beliefs.
December 13, 2006 at 4:28 pm
FWIW, I kind of intended that connotation. As you’ll see in the post, there is psychological twist to this that is every bit as unpleasant as the image that conjures up.
But yeah, it’s not a nice subject.