Archive for December, 2011
by lizard Reviewing what happened this past year is for historians like Newt Gingrich. Because there is absolutely nothing we can learn from history, let’s not waste any of our precious time thinking about stuff that’s already happened. Instead, I would like to offer some predictions for the new year. If you’re feeling prophetic, please [...]
by lizard As a genre, Spoken Word is poetry performed. Line breaks and clever enjambments need not apply. Spoken Word is the free-flowing vibe of poetry slams. And it’s the guts of Rap and Hip-Hop. Like any genre, it has its contrivances and caricatures. Like suburban white kids lovin’ themselves some rap music. My only [...]
by lizard The crazy is possible, and the scramble is on. Ron Paul’s inevitable penetration into America’s political consciousness is frightening both sides of the aisle. The Ron Paul brand is a weird assemblage, attracting seemingly disparate bits of our societal frustration. anti-war refugees and those criminalized by the drug war like some of what [...]
By JC ———– Update #2 (this is an update from the original Kos post linked to below): This is from a statement from Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers regarding Republican Denny Rehberg as a target of recall, who also voted for NDAA. Here in Montana, while we will go after all three violators of the Bill [...]
by lizard While sitting in post-feast stupor on the couch, I caught most of the 60 minutes piece about incredibly devout, orthodox, byzantine-time-telling bearded Christians who inhabit Mount Athos and pray every minute of their lives to get closer to God. It wasn’t until near the end of the piece that women’s presence (or lack-there-of) [...]
by lizard Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s new collection of verse, Metropole, features an old, grainy picture of Bohemian Grove. The picture was taken by photographer James D. Phelan in 1924, before the now infamous summer boys club in Northern California transformed into a target of conspiratorial speculation. Intrigued, I purchased the book, and before digging in, [...]
by lizard In an earlier post that touched on Missoula’s variation of OWS, I mentioned poop and wiping one’s ass. Well, it appears the poop war between Missoula County commissioners and the occupiers is escalating, with the recent removal of a portable shitter from the courthouse lawn. Pulling back their shitty olive branch is not [...]
by jhwygirl Make no mistake, Rep. Denny Rehberg will be voting yes as soon as Boehner rounds up his caucus and get’s ‘em all back to Washington. He is not going to risk letting a tax cut issue reside with Jon Tester. Who did, incidentally, have no problem voting for it. On Tuesday Rehberg, of [...]
by jhwygirl These are some serious issues that deserve some serious attention, folks. There’e no reason to dismiss this stuff as crazy blog stuff, as this and the story below are merely op eds that ask questions of stories written in the Missoulian. Also in today’s paper was this story of a guy who was [...]
by jhwygirl What exactly goes on in this town regarding rape? The University of Montana investigating crimes on its own campus with its own attorney/investigator? And not involving police? Are Universities their own political subdivision? A woman goes to the police to inquire about rape and assault charges and they don’t immediately find her an [...]
by lizard I read an article by Sam Smith at Counterpunch today, titled America’s Silent Collapse, that’s really worth reading. Something that really jumped out, though, was a statement made by a German university professor to journalist Milton Mayer about what it was like to live through Germany’s dark transformation during the 1930′s: To live [...]
by jhwygirl Oh don’t you know Pete’s correct – I’m going there. This is just one of probably several things I’ll have to say on the recent rape allegations against 3 Griz football players. What a great headline to wake up to Missoula! And don’t you know reporter Gwen Florio and the Missoulian were immediately [...]
by Pete Talbot Woke up this morning, put on my Grizzly hoodie and then opened up the daily fishwrap. The alleged sexual assault by at least three UM football players is above the fold and the administration is stonewalling. Roofies, the rape drug, may be involved. Great. Kind of takes the wind out of our [...]
by lizard So Christopher Hitchens is dead, and the war in Iraq is over. The former said of the latter: “Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.” In this specific instance, I think Hitchens is dead wrong. With every duplicitous proclamation from our President’s mouth about this war, America’s credibility [...]
by jhwygirl We all know congress is a mess. These guys are beyond any sense when they can’t keep the nation’s flood insurance program running on anything but rims. Congress has surpassed incompetence at this point – it’s malfeasance when you look at the purposeful will with which they make these decisions. Montanans across the [...]
by lizard There appears to be no bottom to the depths of hypocrisy American officials like Hillary Clinton exemplify when criticizing other nations: Issuing new warnings to two U.S. partners Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Russia for a parliamentary election she called rigged and said election gains by Islamist parties must [...]
by lizard Cedilla V’s release is tomorrow, at the Crystal Theatre, at 7pm. The reading is scheduled to start around 8pm, and will tentatively wrap up around 10pm. Of course with around 30 poets reading, who knows when the poetry will end. In case you missed my earlier post promoting this event, check it out. [...]
by jhwygirl Four years ago today, Missoula found out that Forrest Clayton Salcido had been stomped to what would be his death on the frozen ground of the south side of the California Street bridge the previous evening, right here in Missoula Montana. We’ve written about Forrest a number of times over the years. You [...]
by lizard If only poor people could afford lobbyists. But lobbyists like Newt Gingrich charge a lot of money for their services. While the GOP clown show gets devoured by the punditry, angry little malcontents like myself keeps railing against the Republican in the White House, president Barack Obama. I say that because we are [...]
by jhwygirl A little over two weeks ago we wrote about developments at the old Fox Theater site, including the developer’s request to get the city-owned riverfront property – valued at nearly $3 million I believe – for nothing and a grassroots citizen’s group comprised of labor, transportation and natural resource advocates who were seeking [...]
by lizard As the EU totters on the precipice, and Germany gets smacked into submission, I would like to make some poetry-for-purchase suggestions because, you know, tis the season, and to keep this economic system from collapsing, we must all do our part. Here is mine. Oh, and if you plan on buying online, I [...]
by lizard Kids are resources to be mined for their role in directing capital, and tweens are an especially lucrative demographic to target. My kids are much younger than that, but my oldest (3 yrs) is already iPhone savvy (I’ve seen him use his finger on the computer screen like it should respond to his [...]
by jhwygirl This is rich: GMAC mortgage lending exited the mortgage market in Massachusetts today. GMAC did this is in reaction to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filing suit against 5 banks in the state for “deceptive and unlawful conduct” in foreclosures. This is the first significant lawsuit to come about for the banks’ robo-signing [...]
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