Archive | August, 2007
Branding Helena: A Cynic’s Response
The city of Helena wants to make itself a more attractive vacation destination. Tourist spend money and create jobs, which is why so many cities compete for their attention. The idea of branding Helena might generate some civic discussion, but I'd rather the see the city work on practical solutions than marketing. I read through the proposal, and it offered [...]
Continue reading...See, It’s Vietnam…but It’s Not When I Say it’s Not. See?
22. August 2007
Seriously, those of you who voted for this idiot, please mail me your personal apologies. I'll do my best to forward them to the American public, the world, and all the people who made America great in the past two hundred years. My God.
Continue reading...Real Class Warfare
21. August 2007
One of my favorite conservative memes of recents years is the claim that arguing for sensible tax policy towards corporations and the wealthy is somehow “class warfare.” Unable to engage on the issue and unwilling to confront the reality that increasingly skewed economic divides damage democracy, the Right contents itself with another rhetorical out. Meanwhile, real class warfare–the Bush agenda the [...]
Continue reading...How Long Until the Right Wing Attacks These Soldiers?
19. August 2007
I understand that Dennis Rehberg is an expert on Iraq because he visited a portion of the Green Zone over two years ago, but I’ll put my faith in this description, offered by a group of American soldiers, at the end of a 15 month deployment to Iraq: To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its [...]
Continue reading...The Hardliner: Montana’s Newest Sad Excuse for a Conservative Blog
18. August 2007
Everyone who starts a blog faces the same difficulty, at least initially: How do I get readers to visit my site and commenters to add to it? The world of the web 2.0 suggests that for every hundred people who visit a site, less than a handful will comment or contribute. It's an issue here, [...]
Continue reading...Brad Johnson: Victory!
17. August 2007
With profound apologies to the real artists.
Continue reading...Where’s Dennis? Redux
17. August 2007
{mosimage} This series of events is interesting to me. On June 21, 2007, Dennis Rehberg announced that he had secured $400,000 in funding for the Montana World Trade Center. He secured, you paid for it. On the same day, Rehberg announced that he planned to start posting his schedule online. On August 16, the Washington Post [...]
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- Tester-Burns Debate
- A Somewhat Cynical Observation about Mansfield-Metcalf
- Montana's Max: Nutcakes!
- Dennis Rehberg: Master of the Oblivious
- Off to See Hillary and Obama
- Idaho Anti Wolf Coalition Falls Short (18)
- Blogs and the Media: Kemmick and Crisp (17)
- Tester-Burns Debate (14)
- The conscience of a liberal: why I am considering abstaining in the Iraqi War Referendum vote... (14)
- The Religious Right's Trump Card Exposed (13)
- Fixing Failing by Predetermining Passing
- Rehberg’s 14 Minutes and the Media’s Response: Which Was Worse?
- Some More Thoughts About Denny’s Stunt in Washington
- DHS now officially seizing and searching laptops
- NorthWestern Energy makes me sick
- I just lost my appetite
- McCain confuses Somalia and the Sudan
- Some Questions I’d Like to See Someone Ask Steve Daines
- Our Endorsements for the Democratic Primary: Bullock, Juneau, and Hunt
- Why Won’t Dennis Rehberg Vote to Support the Troops? To Protect People Who Make $500,000 a Year
22. August 2007
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