Archive for December, 2010
by lizard I’m obsessed with rabbits. from the book I read as a kid, Watership Down, to my favorite movie, Donnie Darko, rabbits have become a powerful symbol for me. Signifying what? From just the two examples I mentioned, a warning the world as we know it is about to end. Wallace Stevens wrote a [...]
by problembear as usual, i am curious about something…. take a look at these two links and tell me if we have our priorities right here? 1. this outfit as described in today’s missoulian and all over our television news lately has needed much help this winter and the entire sorry episode has been getting a lot [...]
by jhwygirl All of these stories were available last night on the front webpage of Montana newspapers across the state… In Billings, this gem of a guy was allegedly 3 times the legal limit when he nearly hit a police car. He had 5 minors, four under age 9, in the car. Missoula, not to [...]
By Ross I think many of us saw the Missoulian’s story on the 23rd of December. For those of you that missed the story (I suspect that was the intent of announcing two days before Christmas) here it is. Park Water Co., which owns Mountain Water Co. (Missoula’s water utility), is to be sold to the [...]
by problembear i will let sherry devlin tell it better than i could. http://missoulaeditor.com/?p=2627 the s.o. and i will sorely miss him! here is the U of M school of journalism’s writeup as well… http://www.jour.umt.edu/node/383 i will say however that playing bob in scrabble was a hopeless quest to all but the extremely gifted…..
view from newly opened potomac bar taken on sunset christmas eve by s.o. with her blackberry. by problembear we have a long way to go before we get out of this depression we are in. montana has taken a licking this year. the closing of smurfit stone and it’s loss of hundreds of well paid [...]
by lizard I started off writing about poetry here at 4&20 with a post that asked the question “Can poetry matter?” but the source material I used for that post sprouted from internal gripes within the American poetry world. Here’s a better question: Why doesn’t poetry matter? I believe rhythm and rhyme are foundational components [...]
By JC Thought a little JibJab humor might cheer everybody up. Well, everybody but all those who’s dreams rested on DREAM.
by problembear http://vimeo.com/12450487 http://vimeo.com/12418240 this season reminds me that we differ because we care. bears have mentors to remind us about what is truly important-the wild things and our elders. take time to listen this year to what they tell us. merry christmas to all.
by Pete Talbot Nothing like a trip to the Magic City of Billings to put things in perspective: where an in-law tells me about his buddy who’s making $2000 a week welding on a pipeline in the Williston Basin, where I meet a man who runs a big (I mean really big) shovel at Colstrip, [...]
By Duganz Last night on Twitter I asked if anyone would want to recreate The Moth here in Missoula. I figured I’d get two or three replies, mostly just people asking what I was talking about. But actually the response has been overwhelmingly good. So far City Council badass Stacey Rye has signed on, as [...]
by lizard As the president scores some lame duck points, our state republicans are positioned to translate the national GOP corporate hype machine into actual legislative goals. Inevitably it will boil down to slashing taxes, which means killing state revenue, which means pushing local municipalities to make painful cuts in local programs. All evidence that [...]
by jhwygirl Travis over at Electric City Weblog wrote up a nice piece on the recent court case surrounding the MATL transmission line, the law, and his musings on the issue. Recommended.
by jhwygirl I’ve slept on this two nights, and I’ve failed to find a moral or a logical reason for Tester’s vote, other than pandering for votes. I guess I’m one of those idealistic ones who expects the people I vote for to do the right thing. Even when it’s tough. A number of progressives [...]
by lizard As I have been following the emerging tabloid-like coverage of the now infamous Jason Christ, it occurred to me that pot-crusaders and panhandlers have something in common: the dogged attention of the Missoulian. for example, read the first chunk of reportage by the Missoulian’s Gwen Florio in the latest installment of the Christ [...]
by jhwygirl Montana Senator Jon Tester voted against the DREAM act today. Kos is pissed So am I. (Looks like Baucus voted NO too.)
by lizard I have been grossly derelict in my assumed duty to bring poetry to these virtual pages, so I’m making up for it by bringing a double-dose for the weekend. First up is Donald Justice, a pretty well known poet in the poetry world: * Landscape with Little Figures There once were some pines, [...]
by jhwygirl Odd, no? Great Falls Tribune reported yesterday on a ruling by District Judge Laurie McKinnon which found that private corporations do not have the power of eminent domain. You’d think freedom-loving pro-property right’s Montanans would be out banging pots and clanging lids but instead? Thud. You’d think the Chamber of Commerce and every [...]
by jhwygirl Associated Press reported early this afternoon that Senator Jon Tester’s logging bill that’s been sitting in committee for what seems to be most of the year now has been placed into the $1.3 trillion omnibus budget spending bill. The current version of the bill, which has substantially changed according to Great Falls Tribune [...]
by problembear i don’t expect any better from the republicans either. this country is now officially a plutocracy. open rebellion against the entire corrupt system is the only answer left to those of us who lack enough funds to bribe our representatives. working within the system and trying to effect change from within only plays into [...]
Commentary by JC Baucus’ “Health Care Reform Provision Is Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules” I knew it would eventually come to this. Today’s headlines all over the media and blogosphere blaring out the news that the legal arguments against the mandate are beginning to advance in court. The battle against Obama’s health insurance reform act, and [...]
by problembear if they won’t listen we are just making noise and noise is just annoying. the bark of the ponderosa interlocks like puzzles to join the silence of snow where the answer to the problem gathers strength and awaits the proper time to speak.
by jhwygirl This is Montana, sirs. It isn’t the reality that you live in, as the Cato Institute notes. Think about that this morning as you consider the tax package compromise. …Shadowboxing the apocalypse and wandering the land.
by jhwygirl Pogie is the Master. Read it here. I’m also flat-out saying this right now – I’ll be using that (R-Marbut) too. Poached. Brilliant.
by lizard Of the 100+ comments in the wikileak thread, the commentary I find the most disturbing comes from the perennial defender of American Empire, “The Polish Wolf.” I was so dumbfounded by the lengths to which this person is willing to defend the indefensible, I figured a closer look at (his?) rationalizations was in [...]
by jhwygirl It seems to me that Montana’s Sen. Jon Tester can show an independent progressive populist position here regarding the tax cut issue and say that he will not vote for anything that includes a $700 billion dollar increase to the deficit on the backs of 98% of Americans. He should stand on the [...]
by jhwygirl Senator Bruce Tutvedt (of Kalispell) is concerned about what language our driver’s test be administered.
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