Archive | January, 2008
Poverty Is Not a Game
So I know that I am a cynic, but come on. The Missoulian has a report today about a poverty simulation, put on by Montana Legal Services and the Missoula Forum for Children and Youth, in which participants were given a better understanding of what it means to be poor by playing a game that sounds [...]
Continue reading...And now for something completely different…maybe…
20. January 2008
I was really amused from this clip of a recent episode of the Simpsons…it is an oddly apt commentary on this year’s election…
Continue reading...Democrats Think Democrats Will Win, Republicans Think They Will
20. January 2008
In a major news break today, Charles Johnson reports that Erik Iverson is confident that Republican candidates will make gains this November, while Dennis McDonald believes Democratic candidates will have the upper hand in 2008. All this story needs is a quote from Craig Wilson, so I decided to make one up: Elections are tricky things in [...]
Continue reading...Brad Johnson: Golly, Our Machines Look Good Enough for Me!
20. January 2008
You know, I was concerned that some of the machines used to count votes in Montana had been shown to be susceptible to attacks and easily tampered with until Brad Johnson told me that I don’t need to worry. After all, he wrote: Montana does not use machines to record votes. We use paper ballots - [...]
Continue reading...Another Reason I Love the Media
19. January 2008
Would it kill Chris Matthews to refer to Hillary Clinton in the singular once?
Continue reading...Why Do I Love the Media?
19. January 2008
Jeff Birnbaum, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Sammon and sitting in a Washington, D.C. TV studio speculating about whether or not President Clinton’s claims of voter suppression and fraud in Nevada are valid or not, after the Faux anchor cut off the chair of the Nevada Democratic Party after one question. No context, no knowledge, no facts. Just [...]
Continue reading...An Increasingly Relevant Six Year Old News Story
18. January 2008
Peter Johnson, writing in the Great Falls Tribune, in 2002: It’s too early to panic, but Montana Democrats anxiously are recruiting a candidate to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg…. But the more pertinent time frame is how long it takes a challenger to organize a campaign, raise money and get his or her name before [...]
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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)
- Questions and One Thought After the GOP’s Last Day
- 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
25. January 2008
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