Edumacation

September 27, 2010 in Montana

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 [...]

Thirty years ago ARCO killed Anaconda, Montana, but it’s still there

September 27, 2010 in Corporatism, Culture, Ego, Environment, Montana, Poverty, Reaganism

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 [...]

You can fight for freedom, but you can’t write about it

September 27, 2010 in Montana

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 [...]