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Bitterroot Redux
Historical Monument along Highway 93 just south of Hamilton, MontanaNo explanation necessary, really. Just a question. Are we there yet?
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Is That The Smell of Freedom On Your Breath?
Wreck on the HighwayA MusingAt a recent Ravalli Co. Commissioners’ meeting to ‘develop a message about COVID-19’, one man stood up to proclaim that he was an ‘Americanist’, which meant (to him) that he...
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Pilgrim's Progress Redux
Freezeout Lake, Teton County, MontanaThe Dagwood SandwichNote: A little bird told me that if I want people to follow my blog I have to post more than one piece every few weeks. "Duh," I told this...
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News Flash: Machine Guns are Pro-Life
Sen. Jason Ellsworth (R-Ravalli County) has a machine gun pointed out his business window (above). There is no better picture to show how 'pro-life' and 'pro-freedom' Sen. Ellsworth is, so I’m sharing...
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The Long Covid
Note: This piece was first posted exactly a year ago, and after stumbling over it while looking for something else on this blog, I thought, hell. If history is repeating itself, this piece bears...
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On Ether
Think of Facebook like Mark Zuckerberg does, as a “rarefied, elastic substance that permeates all space including the interstices between the particles of matter, the medium whose vibrations constitute...
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Democracy (Socialism) vs Capitalism (Fascism): Our Choice
Today's news, once again, is all about war and nothing about climate chaos and, while climate change is yet to reach "visceral" status with our species, the atrocities of war have been consistent...
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On Boomers, Founding Fathers and Cultural Relativism
The Slippery SlopeOkay…remember money? If you’re a ‘boomer’ you do. If you’re not, you still suffer from embarrassing cultural delusions whether you want to admit it or not—which is what we 'boomers'...
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The Winner!
Here is the winner for Best Sign at today’s (May 4th) Pro-Choice demonstration in front of the “majestic” Supreme Court steps and pillars. Behind the sign is a self-assured young woman enjoying her...
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When "Thousands" are Millions
Two Pro-Choice extremists violating 18 US Code. 1507 in front of the Supreme Court “exhibiting unadulterated rage while no longer recognizing any limits of decency or civility in our political...
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Home Sweet Home
I've been walking around these days looking for birds. Where I live is up against the Bitterroot Mountains, surrounded by old cow pastures with rotting tree stumps shot through it, testimony to a time,...
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Thought for the Day
Ok, readers (you know who you are). Here's our thought for the day before the election where fascism is on the ballot and all the Talking Heads, who are getting paid more money per minute than you ever...
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Politically-Correct Forestry
Mill Creek Canyon 18 years after the so-called "stand-replacement" fires of 2000 Note: I submitted the below Letter-to-the-Editor to the Bitterroot Star a couple weeks ago in response to an article...
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Thought for the Day After Election Day, 2022
OK guys, here's the deal... We had an election where the Talking Heads and the brains behind them (Ew...ww..!?) tried to convince us that forcing women to be incubators for unwanted pregnancies was not...
View ArticleMark David Chapman, You've Done a Terrible Thing
I wrote this song 42 years ago, Dec. 8th, 1980, in a cabin up Nine Mile back when Nine Mile was still out there, a good hour away from Missoula when the weather was good, another continent when it was...
View ArticleOlaus Murie and the Brandborgs
I've posted this "piece of book" before on this site, but I'm feeling impulsive tonight, wanting to amplify an insight Stewart and Anna Vee Brandborg shared with me about Olaus Murie that may be of...
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Environmentalist
Selway Bitterroot Wilderness, Idaho If I were to define myself with a six-syllable insult to the English language, I would not choose a word invented fifty years ago by some well-meaning...
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CorporateSpeak
Let’s think on our feet here. This is the real world and we need a level playing field. We have a track record and can't be distracted with bumps in the road. We need bargaining chips to pad our...
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On Buffalo and Non-Linear Western Reality Challenges
“What’s all this nostalgia about bison?” Gilles Stockton of the Montana Cattle Association opined recently in response to public outrage over the slaughter of one out of every four wild buffalo still...
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Nixon Rock Redux
Nixon RockRed River, IdahoIn the summer of 1980 I was working on a trail crew for the Elk City Ranger District in Central Idaho. After four days out on a hitch we would often travel up the Red River...
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Steal This Song.........Jimmy Driftwood Did!
St. George and the Dragon First of all, let's get one thing clear: Nobody can steal "The 8th of January". It's a fiddle tune that's been around since God invented spare ribs and is Public Domain even...
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We Got It All
Winter Solstice, 2008, 6:30 AM First thing I did was admire Venus rising to the east over the Sapphires, and give a nod to my man, Scorpio, on the far-eastern edge of the still-starlit sky, ready to...
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Far Less Effort
Bonneville DamNote: In the early 1950s, the Army Corps of Engineers proposed to build two 700-ft, straight-axis dams on the Clearwater River in Northern Idaho, one at Bruces Eddy on the North Fork of...
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The Medicine Tree
January, 2024Victor, Montana The Bitterroot Valley, like the Nile, is upside-down. Both take their directions from rivers that flow from south to north, so when an old-time “Bitterrooter” talks...
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How the John Birch Society Bit Ravalli County and Gave It Rabies
Breaking: Montana's "Freedom Caucus" employs tax dollars generated from super-charged property-tax hike to hire unidentified physician tasked with fitting square conspiracy theories into round, black...
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