It looks like the presidential election might be over already. Thank God. But the creatures that spawned the Creature from the Reality TV Lagoon are likely to be with us for a while yet. I refer to the lords of talk radio, whose unrelenting sledgehammer attacks on conventional governance finally coughed up presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. He has been, sure enough, unconventional. Continue Reading →
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The Bar Tab: Unlooked-for jollity at the Southern Empire
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What made us choose to visit the Southern Empire Emporium? Sheer curiosity, really. It is positioned on the south side of exit 446 at 1212 Mullowney Lane, and we had gone past the place too many times not to check it out. We weren’t expecting much, but it turned out to be a memorable decision. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Glenn Beck, Grinch, Southern Empire Emporium
David Crisp: Sympathy for Cecil? That’s how we’re wired
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When I deliver the Outpost on Thursdays, I have for years listened to conservative talk radio. It probably has made me more liberal than I ought to be. My contrarian streak runs deep. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: From the Outpost, 'Voices of Montana', Aaron Flint, Cecil, E.B. White, Glenn Beck, ISIS
From the Outpost: On stupid voters (present company excepted)
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Jonathan Gruber got himself—and the Obama administration—into trouble last week when a tape surfaced in which he referred to the “stupidity of the American voter.”
The context made it worse. Mr. Gruber, an economist at MIT who had a hand in writing the Affordable Care Act, praised lack of transparency about the bill and said that it was written in a “tortured way” so the Congressional Budget Office would not score the individual mandate as a tax. (more…) Continue Reading →