Archive for September, 2010
by jhwygirl Boy – couldn’t have better weather for a fly-fishing competition and evening fundraiser, could you? Missoula’s very hard-working homeless shelter, The Poverello’s Center will be hosting its 5th annual Double Haul Fly Fishing Fundraiser Saturday, with Kettlehouse Brewing providing adult beverages and Two Sisters of Montana helping out with the food. Who’s doing [...]
by lizard With such a wide swath of Americans serving in the military, it shouldn’t be surprising our armed forces are comprised of cultural extremes, like killers and poets, serving side by side in extreme chaos and extreme boredom. The killer aspect of American soldiering has recently sprung up in a creepy kill squad involving [...]
by problembear the slime devils who are paid to spew lies about payday lending have finally arrived to convince us that citizen’s initiative I-164 to cap the rate on payday lending is unfair to the people who pay them for their lies. let’s give them all a rousing montana welcome. these asshat social spin doctors [...]
by lizard Education is everywhere right now. The mainstream media (providing a slew of cheap publicity for David Guggenheim’s new documentary Waiting For Superman) has brought to the forefront the “crisis” in education like it’s something new. Well, it’s not, but for us Americans with crippled attention spans, it’s the flavor of the moment, so [...]
By Duganz Kill a person and you’ll go to jail for life. Kill an entire town and, well, it’s a different story. Today is the anniversary of just such a crime. Thirty years ago oil conglomerate Atlantic Richfield Company drove a knife into the side of Anaconda, Montana–my hometown. I wasn’t alive to see the [...]
By Duganz Our always helpful federal government has taken a huge jump into the book burning business. In an effort to help sales of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s new memoir Operation Dark Heart, and give a decent one-two to the First Amendment, the feds bought 9,500 copies of the first run of the book. That [...]
by problembear heading into election season and things will most likely ramp up here so i thought i would offer this blog post i found when i logged in at wordpress this morning. not sure how i feel about it other than it provides some good thinking to think about. like most people, i like [...]
by jhwygirl Stolen right from this comment: 35% of Rs put up with the other 15% because 15% of Ds are so radical that the 35% of Rs simply can’t accept the communism and authoritarian control of their lives that D’s 15% espouses. And 35% of Ds put up with the other 15% because they [...]
by lizard Our next poet, Diane DiPrima, was born in Brooklyn in 1934. According to this brief bio, her maternal Grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an anarchist and associate of Emma Goldman. As a poet, Diane ran with the Beats for a while, then started a short-lived Master-in-Poetics program with Robert Duncan at a school in [...]
by problembear vote here…. http://www.mtstandard.com/news/local/poll_4ccb29b4-c29d-11df-96fa-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=comments
By @CarFreeStpdty Listening to NPR’s Morning Edition – like I do on a routine basis while at work – has become just one more element in the background of white noise that fills my average day. But yesterday morning someone’s comments caught my attention in an unusual way. One quote stuck in my mind… playing itself [...]
by jhwygirl This past Saturday, The Indy’s award-winning supermontanacolumnist George Ochenski gave the keynote speech at the Flathead Democrat’s Annual Harvest Dinner. Never one to hold back on the truth, the big GO delivered a barn-burner, closing to a standing ovation and inspiring all who attended. It’s no secret that I absolutely worship George Ochenski. [...]
by Pete Talbot “We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal,” reads a plank in the state’s GOP platform. So, most Montanans think that two consenting adults of the same gender should go to jail if they want to have sex. Interesting. “I think your [...]
by jhwygirl This is just a quick follow-up to last week’s post about the City of Bozeman’s resolution in support of Montana’s same sex couples and their lawsuit against the State of Montana for its Defense of Marriage Act. With Montana in the national news spotlight for the Montana GOP’s platform criminalizing homosexuality, this resolution [...]
by jhwygirl Via Helena’s CBS KXLH reporter Marnee Banks’ twitter feed, comes the sobering reminder that Montana National Guard Troops will be deploying Monday morning for (first) a six-week stop for training in Mississippi and then to their purposed assign in support of the Overseas Contingency Operation. This is their second deploy, having already supported [...]
by lizard It remains to be seen how effective Elizabeth Warren’s appointment to organize a Consumer Finance Protection Agency will be, but for someone like me, who is suspicious of the machinations of DC, it seems safe to speculate that the scope and timing of her appointment is mostly political, with little in the form [...]
by lizard I’ve been getting reacquainted with the poets in my extensive poetry collection looking for the second candidate of this series, and by extensive I mean browsing roughly 350 books, give or take a few. That number includes biographies of poets, over two dozen anthologies, poetry journals, essay collections, and a few rare first [...]
By @CarFreeStpdty Could it be that the Taiwanese understand the Tea Party better than the rest of us? Not being able to understand the commentary makes it just that much more perfect…
By JC Ok, this is too good to pass up. You can’t make this s*#$ up. The wacky gets whackier. The crazies get louder. Then the mainstream starts buying into the legitimacy of these loony candidates. What gives? Seems that the conservative movement, republicans and tea partiers are all aflutter this week about the ascension [...]
By Duganz This post could really use a picture of Seattle-based Molly Norris. I just didn’t think it ethical to post one because she is now in hiding on the advice of the FBI due to threats by stupid, misguided fools who want to kill her. They want her dead for a joke she made [...]
by lizard This is the first in what will be a series of looks at American poets, past and present, who I think answer the question posed in the title of my last post. Robinson Jeffers is an American poet who found critical acclaim in the 20’s and 30’s with long narrative poems that touched [...]
by jhwygirl On Monday at Bozeman’s City Commission meeting, Mayor Jeff Krauss put forth a resolution that formally supports equality rights for same sex couples in the State of Montana. The resolution calls on the State of Montana and its Attorney General to support equality rights for gay and lesbian couples by supporting the couples [...]
by jhwygirl Last month Director had told the Legislature’s Revenue and Transportation Interim Committee that their review of Exxon/Imperial Oil’s environmental analysis (yep, the applicant submitted the ea) would be completed by August 15th….while later he backtracked and said that he didn’t expect to have it by the end of August. Well, here we are, [...]
by problembear the so called health-care bill that max baucus and the insider club obama operatives signed off on has resulted in raising our health insurance rates even more, making it that much harder for businesses, families and individuals to afford health insurance. this man has a great post on it that i wanted to [...]
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