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Montana Blog Roundup 05 March 2011

5 March 2011

Another weekly look at the posts that I most appreciated and/or was interested in this week in the small world of Montana blogs. My favorite story of the week is jhwygirl’s roundup of the two rallies at the Capitol yesterday, one of which drew national attention, with the other seeming to receive much less notice. [...]

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Who Visits Intelligent Discontent?

3 March 2011

Inspired by Rob’s post over at Left in the West, I decided to take a closer look at the traffic stats here for the past month, which was certainly one of the busiest in the almost six years I have been writing here. The only other comparable time was probably October 2006, when I was [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup 27 February 2011

27 February 2011

In a month when we’ve written 66 posts here at Intelligent Discontent (more than the last five months of 2010 combined), it’s probably appropriate to take a moment to thank the Montana GOP at the Legislature for inspiring me to get back into writing. They’ve also inspired a number of excellent posts all over the [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup February 19, 2011

19 February 2011

In a week during which the Montana Legislature took its unique brandof governing by conspiracy theory to the national media, you may have missed some excellent posts on subjects other than President Obama’s place of birth. Here are a few of the most interesting. If you’re not reading D Gregory Smith’s From Eternity to Here, [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup February 12, 2011

12 February 2011

A quick look at the highlights from this week in Montana’s blogs suggests it’s been a tough seven days forDenny Rehberg and the GOP leadership at the Montana Legislature. The writers over at 4and20blackbirds focused on the unbelievable hypocrisy of the Republicans in the Legislature. MT Cowgirl addressed the national embarrassment of Dennis Rehberg’s unbelievably [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup February 5, 2011

5 February 2011

A couple of quick notes from the Montana blog world you might have missed in the past week: The  Knoxocalypse was all the unpaid rage in the past couple of days, landing here and at 4and20 Blackbirds and MT Cowgirl. David Crisp wrote about the difference between betrayal and courage. Jhwygirl highlighted the dangers of [...]

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Thoughts on Attribution: the Montana Media and Blogs

7 September 2010

I’ve always been surprised by how little coverage and credit Montana bloggers get from the mainstream media in the state (to the extent that I am almost convinced Lee Enterprises has a policy against mentioning them), but the topic has come back to mind in the past couple of days because of a new attribution [...]

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New Blog Project

14 July 2010

While five years and 1300 posts at this site may have given the impression that my only passions in life are mocking Dennis “The Prince of the Rimrocks” Rehberg and tweaking the local newspaper, education and the ongoing debate about education reform has always been of great interest to me and I’ve wanted to do [...]

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Best of the Montana Blogosphere, 2008

1 January 2009

It’s occurred to me on occasion that blogging may encourage the already strongly critical side of my nature, and one of my ambitions this year is to find the time to write more positively about the world. With the change in the Presidency that should be a bit easier, though I’m not making any promises [...]

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The Top Five Worst Posts in the Montana Blogosphere-2008

31 December 2008

Inspired by the Village Voices Top 10 Rightblogger Stories of 2008, I humbly offer my assessment of the five worst posts in the world of Montana blogs this year. To all the winners, I offer a hearty congratulations. To those of you not selected, 2008 wasn’t exactly a banner year for conservatives anyway. Better luck [...]

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What Really Terrifies Me About Montana’s Right Wing Bloggers

6 August 2008

There are a lot of things that terrify me about them, but I just realized something today that might be the worst of all. I think they actually believe that arguments like the Republican stunt in Washington is lowering gas prices or that the Democrats in Congress have caused gas prices to increase by not [...]

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Black Slang? Urban America Leaves Us Behind Again

17 July 2008

So I saw an interesting post on Mother Jones, about The word in question is “Holler”, and it being a word with black origins. Now, having been at college recently, I put too much importance on language, like a good college student. I thought of my own family’s use of the word “holler”. I can [...]

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