by jhwygirl
Please consider this an open thread.
Dave Crisp of the Billings Blog started the week off right (LOL) with a post regarding the perplexedly contradictory Professor Natelson of Electric City Weblog.
Then Matt at Left in the West ponders even more the lunacy libertarianism of Professor Natelson’s wish for private school education for the masses.
It’s all very funny, actually.
Pogie knocked out 4 posts this week on education, kicking it off with Education Week: Open Thread to Discuss Schools.
But my favorite was Pogie’s take on Gary Marbut’s classless judgement to use the sniper shooting tragedy in Glasgow this past week to try and further his guns-for-everyone agenda. It’s kinda funny – every single person that commented called him an ass.
Ouch!
Now, Moorcat stopped by earlier this week. For those of you who don’t this famous blogger, he is the former (?) author of Pragmatic Revolt. He’s been targeted for arrest by elected officials in Dillon, his writing is so fierce….and he is the brother of Wulfgar!. A while back – quite a while back – he fell off the pages. And when he stopped by recently and signed his comment “Montana Bullets and Blades” without leaving a link, I have to admit I did a google looking for what it meant and could find nothing. Well, Doug at The Montana Misanthrope was a better detective than I, and now Montana Bullets and Blades has been revealed to me and our readers of 4&20.
Echoing Doug’s words: Welcome back, friend!
Speaking of Wulfgar!
The real tell-em-like-it-is Professor of Reality brought us a number of wonderful in-your-face pieces this week. My favorite were his lamentations on the demise of the right-wing male. Part 1 and Part 2.
Meanwhile, elsewhere…..Wyoming is getting one of four new BLM offices specializing in “renewables”, meaning biomass, wind, solar and geothermal energy resources. The other 3 are located in Arizona, Nevada and California.
The Missoula Independent’s Skylar Browning did a piece on Roy Houseman, president of steelworkers union Local 885 and employee at Smurfit Stone. He’s 27, and fighting the good fight. Uphill.
We, as a community, as a state, should be asking this man what we can do for him. For them. Because the higher ups in Smurfit-Stone sure don’t seem to be giving a shit.
Last week I mentioned the Bush Administration losing a big one. Well, the lost another big one on their way out the door.
The Obama Administration, among the already long list of things it’s done since Tuesday, has restored a true working Freedom of Information Act.
The Atlantic Monthly looks at the fate of newspapers and the future of journalism.
The President gets a Barackberry – in case you missed it.
As if you could…
The journal Science looks at the massive mortality of conifer stands in the west.
Over at High Country News, executive director of the Wild West Institute and occasional 4&20 commenter Matt Koehler writes that Fire and Ancient Forests Belong Together.
Finally? Good news for those of you with money. The FEC just increased your campaign contribution limits.
Well, it’s been a long week for me – and hopefully a longer weekend. I’m gonna take some time to enjoy it. I hope you do too.
Peace.
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January 24, 2009 at 10:41 am
Are you sure that what Barry is getting is a stealth blackberry?
I’m thinking its more like a portable teleprompter.
January 24, 2009 at 11:32 am
the resentment graph is still pointing south there swede. nice job. keep it up.
January 24, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Even a portable teleprompter is better than having to listen to our last president’s off-the-cuff mangling of the english language, complete with non-sequiturs, ad hominems and plain nonsense.
January 24, 2009 at 2:39 pm
For eight long years I’ve been hearing the left complain about W’s ability to master public speaking. Now when the tables are turned and its our turn for some friendly ribbing, we’re branded cry babies, southern ones at that.
Seems to me the sensitivity meter is pegged at 11 for you guys.
Time to wean yourselves of the binky an grow a spine.
January 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Swede, who around here actually considers you “friendly”?
And, it was W’s inability to master the English language that was the butt of our jokes; and they were hardly friendly nor should they have been. Shouldn’t you have just written:
“Is our Democrats learnin’ yet? Hyuk.”
January 24, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Sensitivity meter? What… you can dish it but not take it? C’mon, BS. You come into a progressive blog and throw out flame-bait and don’t expect to get some push-back? Whaddup with that?
And it wasn’t just the left that was commenting on Bush’s speaking skills. It was pretty much anybody that knew how to construct a proper sentence.
Or do you not think that righties understand common english? Or ignore problems with the way one of their own dishes the discourse?
You want to dish out some friendly ribbing, you’re going to have to expect some right back atcha.
January 24, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I think Big Swede’s friendly.
January 24, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Heh. Well played, sir.
January 24, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I put Big Swede into the entertainment category.
This thread is a prime example of why I don’t mind “his kind” comin’ round.
January 24, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Kinda like a family dinner at thanksgiving time…
January 24, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Hell – now I know why I like it, JC. You’re absolutely right.