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Outta here
The proprietor of the Web-based City Lights would like to announce that the blog, which has been shining damn near continuously for just under five years, is going dark today, for at least a year. I’m doing it as an energy-saving initiative, trying to do my part to stave off climate change.... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Bert Gaskill, R.I.P.
Did I say something about old-home week?  Half an hour after writing about John Potter, I received news of the death of Bert Gaskill, possibly the longest-serving editor in the history of the Montana Standard in Butte.  Gaskill gave me my first job in 1979, hiring me to work as a summer intern... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Another stab from the past
It feels like old-home week around here.  First we had a former reporter in the news, and today we have a story about John Potter, for many years the Gazette’s illustrator and now a successful artist.  Somebody was asking me just yesterday about John and I said how much we all missed his... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Dinosaurs spotted on West Coast
Against all odds, a couple of business partners have launched a dead-tree-only newspaper in Palo Alto, Calif.  I’ve grown to appreciate all the advantages of having an online component to the newspaper, but there is something powerfully appealing about this bold move. At a time when most... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Once a reporter…
Even after they get out of the journalism business, reporters are Johnnies-on-the-spot, apparently.  The early-morning bicyclist who came upon a bound man on the banks of the Yellowstone River today was Dennis Gaub, who was the City Hall reporter when I started at the Gazette in 1989.  (He’s... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

This Bud’s for them
I have mixed feelings about the news that Anheuser-Busch Cos. may be purchased by Belgium-based brewer InBev SA.  The makers of Budweiser beer have spent hundreds of millions of dollars persuading the masses that their swill is worth drinking, so maybe they don’t deserve any pity.  But as... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

One last ride for Utah Phillips
It has come to my attention that U. Utah Phillips, folksinger, hobo, humorist and anarchist, is dead. I happened to have written about Phillips about five weeks ago, when some friends of his in Missoula were planning a fund-raiser to help him with his medical expenses. I knew he had been ailing... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Will slow to adapt to new information
George Will is an awfully smart guy, so I was surprised to see him using one of the dumbest arguments of all to counter forecasts of climate change. He says that even if there is global warming, polar bears will adapt, as they always have. Then he quotes a “former British Cabinet member”:... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Except for the parachute, maybe
The best headline today over at the MNA: Local Pilot Allegedy Found Naked Behind Shed “Local,” in this case, being Harrisburg, Pa., but never mind, just enjoy.  In related news, over at the Devil’s Workshop, David Crisp links to a very mean Web site. Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Satire overload
Political humorists, according to political humorist Bruce McCall, are suffering this election season, having so much material to work from that they are being sorely strained.  An example: Observers point to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent record-setting spate. Over one dizzying weekend... Read more...
Published 2 months ago