Archive for January, 2012
by jhwygirl I’m getting a little sick of hearing Newt Gingrich whine about the negative campaigning of “Massachusetts liberal Mitt Romney.” Isn’t that negative campaigning? Newt calling Mitt Romney a “Massachusetts liberal”? Isn’t the word “liberal” an insult in the GOP world? And sometime we’re going to have to have a discussion about negative campaigning. [...]
by lizard I can’t wait until we start killing prisoners for sport, like in the dystopia depicted in the Steven King story turned crappy movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Running Man. I don’t think we’re that far off, and lately I’ve been thinking that maybe it’s time we just embrace violence. Kill who needs to [...]
by jhwygirl Worthy sources are confirming GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Ken Miller – who’s hitting Rick Hill’s insurance big business connections pretty hard – will be announcing one of Bozeman’s newer residents Billie Orr as his Lieutenant Governor running mate soon. Who is Billie Orr? From her Wikipedia page: Billie J. Orr, Ed.D. is an [...]
by lizard I went looking through my Pablo Neruda to find a poem for Newt Gingrich. I found one that seems appropriate in Neruda’s collection, titled Fin de Mundo, published by Copper Canyon Press (2009). I’m going to feature the poem in its native ghetto language first. For those of you who can’t read Spanish, [...]
by lizard So I was watching the latest episode of the Showtime series Shameless the other night when I witnessed something profound. *spoiler alert* The drunken patriarch of the family, Frank Gallagher (played brilliantly by William H. Macy), had been laying the groundwork for a long-con on a woman who is dying. Slowly he ingratiates [...]
by Pete Talbot Baucus pulls a Rehberg The rhetoric was pure Rehberg but it came from the mouth of Max Baucus. On the heels of the State of the Union address, the first comment from our congressional delegation was Max blasting Obama for not ramming through the Keystone XL pipeline. Granted, it was just a [...]
by lizard Stress can be like a caged animal caught in your chest, kicking your bowels, stiffening your limbs. Today it bit me good, and so I’m taking a mental health day. After I decompressed for a while, I picked up the book of poems currently gracing my night stand—Reading Novalis In Montana, by Melissa [...]
by lizard During the first era of Newt, I didn’t really give a shit about politics. I was just your average privileged white male midwest suburban teenager maximizing my fun time during the ’94 Republican revolution and subsequent contract with America. What does stick out quite vividly is the political and legal battle over what [...]
by lizard This week’s LWPS takes a look at Frank Marshall Davis, a black poet and alleged communist who played a prominent role in influencing our president, the closet Marxist, Barack Obama. I received Davis’ book of collected poems, titled Black Moods, last week. I tried to find the most outlandish poem in the collection, [...]
by jhwygirl It’s more than a bit shocking – regardless of your political persuasion, I’d like to think – when a state senator and a congressional primary candidate champions the short-term economic boom to the shops in downtown Billings that occurred when Exxon spilled crude from its pipeline into the Yellowstone River this past July. [...]
by lizard This winter storm is phenomenal, and not just because of its humbling disruption to our daily routines. Extreme weather like this does something to a community, something encouraging. And because I’m a writer, I wrote something about it. Stay safe, Missoula! * when snow won’t stop falling when the world becomes whiteout and [...]
by jhwygirl Dave Gallik’s resignation as Commissioner of Political Practices was quick and fast – Great Falls Tribune reporter John S. Adams continues the scandal story this morning with news of events at the Capitol yesterday, which include Gallik repeatedly stating that the staff had called the police on him, despite that apparently not being [...]
by lizard With Dave Gallik resigning, there’s been quite a frenzy of speculation. In the comment thread of j-girl’s post, some comments from James C. and Pete T. caught my attention, and considering some other headlines in the paper today, deserve some additional consideration. Here are the comments : James: If the job paid better, [...]
by jhwygirl Boy. What to say about Great Falls Tribune state reporter John S. Adams’ most recent investigative piece exposing misuse of state funds by Dave Gallik, Commissioner of Political Practices? The evidence is pretty damning – considering it seems that the entire staff of the department is standing by the accusations. Seems Gallik is [...]
by lizard In July of 2008, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen made some serious waves when he warned Israel about overtly attacking Iran. The big perceived slap, though, was the reference Mullen made to the USS Liberty incident, which occurred during the 6 day war, in 1967: In early July, Chairman of the [...]
by lizard When I talk about the age of mistrust, I don’t mean to imply that we are progressing from some nostalgically utopian age of trust, like this comment from that post seems to insinuate: Yeah, if we could only go back to those more trusting days . When they were loading boxcars to Auschwitz [...]
by lizard As I was listening to some NPR primary coverage last night, something struck me. The discussion was about exit polling, and the guy being interviewed said something about foreign policy being a non-existent concern for voters. The interviewer asked if it was an open question about which issues concerned voters, and the guy [...]
by lizard I’m afraid we’ve entered the age of mistrust, where nothing is certain, and everything is suspect. Let me try to explain. I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of trust lately, and it wasn’t until my response to the professor that those thoughts finally started crystallizing. While I think Rob Natelson is [...]
by lizard For those who weren’t paying attention to the constitutional violations of the Bush administration (I’m looking at you, “conservatives”) John Yoo is a member of the neocon cabal who should appreciate Obama’s self-interested reluctance to hold those vultures accountable for their crimes. Instead, Yoo has been somewhat brazen by defending his role in [...]
by lizard Rob Natelson has a new post up at ECW, titled Is Obama A Closet Marxist?. It’s simply amazing. The post stems from a comment Rob made on Budge’s post about why Libertarians should reject Ron Paul. When a commenter said the following: “Quite honestly I have come to believe that whoever wins elections [...]
by Pete Talbot Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis This is in response to the Polish Wolf’s post over at Intelligent Discontent. While some of his stats are interesting, his premise is flawed. Basically he says that the 99% are responsible for their economic plight by shopping at WalMart, buying imported clothing and purchasing gasoline. [...]
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