Archive for November, 2011
by lizard This is serious. I’m afraid if exposed to dangerous propaganda, like Dr. Seuss’s Anti-Business-Commie-Tree-Hugger character, the Lorax, our children could be turned into little eco-terrorists. (I hope Bob Duringer is aware of this threat, and acts accordingly). Exhibit A is a 6 minute clip in which Severn Cullis-Suzuki, at the age of 12, [...]
by jhwygirl A friend of mine told me it was unfair to say “conservatives” when talking about the…well…conservative side. “No one’s in control anymore,” she said. “They’re not ‘the GOP’, they’re not ‘the Tea Party’ and they’re not ‘conservatives’, she said – “I don’t know what they are.” Realizing I’m not an expert on the [...]
by Pete Talbot I know, I know, there are a few minor primary and general elections on tap for 2012. Still, the other day Sen. Max Baucus’ name came up in conversation. A couple of the folks present were shocked to hear he might re-up in 2014. Since I received a fundraising letter from him [...]
by lizard As pundits and news consumers digest the bipartisan failure of the Super Committee, a terrible piece of legislation called the National Defense Authorization Act—produced through a bipartisan effort of the Senate Armed Services Committee—will get a vote tomorrow. The Senate Armed Services Committee, led by Senators Carl Levin (D-Michigan) and John McCain (R-Arizona), [...]
by lizard Americans continue to be poorly served by corporate media when it comes to covering what’s happening around the world. It takes a significant amount of active engagement to seek out and read alternative interpretations of current events. Unfortunately too many people either don’t care, or don’t have the time or resources to put [...]
by lizard I find Black Friday to be a cultural embarrassment. Partly that comes from my midwest suburban emersion in American consumerism. When compact discs became the dominant medium for owning and experiencing music, Best Buy became like a holy temple I visited every Tuesday to ritually comb through the new releases for the next [...]
by lizard I’m a lucky guy. I’ve been with my beautiful wife for 13 years, we have two healthy, adorable boys, and I have a great job doing good work in a town I’ve had the pleasure of living in for 11 years. Have a safe, happy Thanksgiving everyone!
by jhwygirl Franke Wilmer has served a respectable 3 terms in the Montana House, surviving 3 sessions up there in Helena. She’s well-qualified to serve as Montana’s next U.S. Representative, her resume including a wide spectrum of employ including waitress, public school teacher, MSU professor and author. Wilmer’s work has spanned a spectrum that is [...]
By JC It was just a matter of time until the USFWS’s rush for delistings caught up with them. In an Opinion released today, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and overturned the April 2007 delisting of grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Area. There is much to [...]
by jhwygirl This is political news that somehow has gone by the byways despite what I assume is a press release to the customarily bevvy of media types – I not, understandably, being amongst that customary bevvy of media types. In other words, I read it on Dave Strohmaier’s Stohmaier for Congress website. Here’s the [...]
by jhwygirl It’s a pretty hefty charge to make, but as Missoula County resident, #OccupyMissoula participant and attorney Taryn Hart points out, it’s unsafe for not only the occupiers, but for the intoxicated people Missoula City Police are allegedly dropping off at the occupation, located on the Missoula County Courthouse lawn. A tactic, she explains [...]
by jhwygirl There’s been some pretty shocking video out of University of California-Davis over the last several days. 99% of the reaction has been that people were horrified and disgusted by the police actions. For myself, I must be numb. The blatent disregard the UCDavis cops had for the students they are paid to protect [...]
by jhwygirl As always, please consider this an open thread. 2nd Grade Bike Rack consistently puts out quality reading – most recently a piece that talks about the lack of transparency with U.N. carbon credits and the corruption which has ensued. Equality is an important issue. I won’t be silent anymore. The time has come, [...]
by lizard Cedilla: n (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) a character ( ¸ ) placed underneath a c before a, o, or u, esp in French, Portuguese, or Catalan, denoting that it is to be pronounced (s), not (k). The same character is used in the scripts of other languages, as in Turkish under s. [...]
by lizard If you don’t pay your rent, or your mortgage, you get evicted. And if you break a law, or violate an ordinance, like illegal camping, there are consequences, like your few remaining material possessions getting seized by parks and rec and thrown away. Unfortunately, selective enforcement of laws and ordinances exposes how one’s [...]
by jhwygirl Not sure how this is flying under the radar – and maybe there’s a reason, huh? – but Missoula Redevelopment Authority (MRA) has apparently set its sights on the Hotel Fox LLC for redevelopment of the old Fox Theater site. Back in the spring, MRA put out the call for proposals on the [...]
by Pete Talbot I shrugged it off the first few times I heard it or saw it in print, “government picking winners and losers.” Now it’s everywhere: Republican debates, news stories, op-ed columns and even comments here at 4&20. It’s directed at Democrats, for the most part, from President Obama (health care, Solyndra) to Missoula’s [...]
by lizard By next Wednesday we should know who will be Missoula’s ward 2 representative on City Council. Adam Hertz holds a slim three vote edge over Pam Walzer. And tonight I just realized two of those pro-Hertz votes came from my parents. We were dining out with the family when my Dad broke this [...]
by lizard Jeff Tweedy is a talented song writer, but when I thumbed through a collection of his poems, titled Adult Head, I found his assuming the role of poet to be a bit presumptuous. I found an interesting article talking about this phenomenon, titled When Bad Poetry Happens to Good Rockers. Here is a [...]
By Pete Talbot Topsy-turvey city council election. Disappointed by the Ward 2 Walzer/Hertz results but I’ll wait for the recount. More on the council races later. Right now, I’m celebrating the landslide referendum outcome. Seventy-five freakin’ percent! Reminds me why I live here.
by lizard Most readers of this blog probably remember how frustrated some of us were in January of this year when Jon Tester labeled those on the left who disagreed with his Forest Jobs and Recreation Act as extremists. Here is the exact wording he used in the Missoulian article: “The work doesn’t get done [...]
by lizard I had no idea how much I didn’t know about the relationship between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath until tonight. I had been somewhat familiar with Plath’s poetry and her tragic suicide on February 11, 1963, from being assigned The Bell Jar in high school (Plath’s only novel published in the UK one [...]
By CFS After more than a year of protests, general strikes, and clashes with authority, the Greek people have been given a chance to decide their own destiny and it looks very likely that voters will reject the debt deal put forward by the EU. Financial markets reacted very negatively to the news, it would seem [...]
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