If Dogs Could Vote

If dogs could vote, I would be king. I visit people’s homes as a candidate for the state legislature. After three or four dogs have smudged my pant legs with their wet noses, I become a cocktail of smells. Then the next dog goes into a frenzy of delight. And the next dog. I’m so [...]

Eating and Buying Local: Northern Exposure

The message from environmentalists and food planners for government schools and food planners that would foist their vision on all of us is to buy locally grown foods. Restaurants do it trying to look holy. In Montana, it’s tougher. If you want to buy local, you can have beef. In Bozeman, you will have a [...]

Exercise or Blame

The Hidden Benefits of Exercise: An Article to Make You Feel Bad Beach exercise The Wall Street Journal published a mean-spirited article this morning. It claims that people who exercise gain hidden benefits. They have fewer symptoms and less-severe illnesses compared to “low-fitness subjects.” Do they realize how hurtful these statements are? Do they think [...]

Obama’s Part-time Job

Barack Obama writes home………………. Dear Mother, How are you? I am fine. I hope our little puppy is happy. The reason I haven’t written is because of my new job. You might have heard that I have been elected President of the United States of America. It’s a big job. I command the army that [...]

Favorite websites

Description Link IOUSA: A 33 minute video about the US debt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo Heritage Foundation http://www.heritage.org/ The Independent Institute www.independent.org The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity http://www.cbhd.org/ The Foundation for Economics Education fee.org Alex’s Paper Airplanes http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/ The Onion: Humorous, satirical news www.theonion.com TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. Talks, speakers http://www.ted.com/index.php/

My Audit of OSHA

My Audit of OSHA or OSHA Has No Sense of Humor Ever since OSHA came to Marathon Seat Covers to look into a list of eight complaints*, I’ve wanted to inspect OSHA. Could they take the same scrutiny? Do they follow all the safety regulations? Do they carry out the required training? Do they keep [...]

Returning to MSU at Fifty-four

Returning to MSU at Fifty-four Things to do: Buy low-hanging denim trousers. Buy strap to suspend trousers. Reminder: Do not try to run while wearing trousers. Knit a Seven Dwarfs Dopey hat. Wear. Attempt to endure a two-hour lab while wearing hat. Attempt facial hair. No, forget that. Practice one-hand texting. Buy tennis shoes with [...]

Mirth Day 2007

Mirth Day 2007 Tomorrow is Mirth Day. Every spring myriads of do-gooders around the embattled globe gather, some to celebrate the wonder and complexity of Mirth, some to lament its decline. Old-timers dig out videocassettes of Woody Allen movies, some watch I Love Lucy re-runs. Young mirthmentalists share MPC files of Eddy Murphy. A candlelight [...]

Close to Nature

Close to Nature Gardiner is place where you are close to nature; rockslides, boulder fields, raging rivers. Friendly, beautiful nature. Elk, buffalo, deer and Bighorn Sheep roam in town. Someone had propped the front door of the church open to create a draft through the building. This morning, halfway through Sunday services, while singing Sweet [...]

My Living Will: Take Medicare Down, FOR ME!

My Living Will I set forth the following as instructions to my family and caregivers, and the taxpayers of the United States of America, to be followed in the event that I should become unable to express my own wishes on the subject of medical treatment. Should I be afflicted with Alzheimer’s, stroke, brain damage, [...]