I am hoping to get back to a regular writing schedule one of these days but lately I’ve been preoccupied with getting the house ready to put on the market.  The photographer will be here in a couple of days and the house needs to be spin and span.  That said, I came across a… Continue reading July 4, 2023

I have been AWOL for a few days.  Things have gotten a bit hectic as I am trying to get my house ready to go on the market in just a few days.  I have had several Letters to the Editor published in the Bozeman Chronicle during the five years I have lived here in… Continue reading July 1, 2023

The Republicans’ effort to regain control of the Senate are well underway and Montana will be playing a pivotal role.  The only Democrat left standing holding a state-wide office in Montana is Senator Jon Tester who is up for re-election in 2024.  He has announced he is running for re-election, but he has a big… Continue reading June 27, 2023

There are several things that concern me as we enter the 2024 election season. I’m certainly concerned with the ‘quality’ of some of the Republican candidates.  Leading the parade is Trump who has essentially vowed to use the government as his own personal vendetta tool should the electorate be foolish enough to usher him into… Continue reading June 26, 2023

Things are certainly getting interesting in Russia.  The tension between Viktorovich Prigozhin and his private mercenary Wagner Group and the Russian Defense Ministry seems to have reached a boiling point.  This tension has been ongoing for some time with Prigozhin accusing the regular Russian military of incompetence while his Warner Group has often been a… Continue reading June 25, 2023

It continues to become apparent that the current Republican party has no real interest in actually governing.  Their policies seem to consist of ‘slash taxes’, ‘absolutely no gun control’, and whatever culture war seems to inflame their base.  Instead, they are concentrating all their efforts on 1) buying their way into power and control, 2)… Continue reading June 22, 2023

There is no doubt that we will all tire of hearing about Hunter Biden between now and the 2024 elections.  He has been under investigation for the last five years and was a key name in the first impeachment of Donald Trump.  After all of this, the Justice Department charged Hunter Biden with two misdemeanor… Continue reading June 21, 2023

I read several articles this morning and realized, sadly, there is a common theme running through them all even though on the surface they seem somewhat disparate subjects.  The first has to do with the first-of-its-kind lawsuit to go to trial in which a group of Montana students sued the state government over its policies… Continue reading June 20, 2023

One of the headlines in this morning’s paper stated that 6 people had been killed and multiple people had been injured in a spate of shootings over the weekend.  There is no other civilized country on the planet that is subject to this kind of random gun violence.  I thought about writing about that but… Continue reading June 19, 2023

There were a couple of interesting articles in the paper this morning.  One concerned a lawsuit mounted by some educational organizations and teachers here in Montana against a law signed by our governor regarding charter schools.  The other article concerned the budget deal that Speaker McCarthy negotiated with the White House regarding the debt ceiling… Continue reading June 18, 2023