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Trump, Biden, and IQ
We’re on our second (or maybe our first) President that routinely works comments about people’s IQ’s in. Biden would just tell people that he had a higher IQ than they did. Trump has a series of people that he calls “low IQ.” Most of them disagree with him on several topics – and as I look at a list of people he has dismissed as low IQ, my thoughts are that he is including a bunch of people who would test average or higher. I’m not sure that either Trump or Biden really understands Intelligence all that well. One of…
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Sometime in the mid-seventies, I read The Monkey Wrench Gang, and learned of Edward Abbey’s views on eco-terrorism. It was a good read – and you don’t need to agree with everything a fiction writer puts to paper to appreciate the work. At 25, I liked the above comment. At 76, I am glad to…
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Max Weber wrote the book in 1905, describing how the Protestant Ethic led to the rise of Capitalism. I chewed through the concept, and realized that rather than move from Mercantilism to Capitalism, Spain had moved into becoming a pirate empire (much like Rome) with her conquistadores bringing in gobs of loot from the Americas…
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We started the Mountain Ear (both times) because we wanted better coverage of local news. There are so many board meetings, and all of them are important. The Tobacco Valley News faces the same problem we do- not enough people and too many meetings, and their focus is on a larger area. So we started…
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An emergency meeting of the Trego school board was called again on May 4 at 4 PM to update the community on the methamphetamine contamination of the school grounds.. Although the meeting was poorly noticed, there were nearly 40 community members in attendance, these included parents, teachers, former students and teachers and interested community members.…
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Earlier this week, a meeting was held to formalize the existing long-term relationship between the TFS Community Hall and the TFS Fire Department. Tables were set to form a circle, and the meeting began with introductions. It was a joint meeting meant to prevent future problems, without any reason to expect them. The issue: an…
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An emergency school board meeting was held at the TFS Community Hall, Saturday at noon (which coincidentally is the time the Rendezvous Parade in Eureka began). The board acknowledged that they failed to provide adequate (48 hours notice) on the meeting, and cited the requisite MCA code allowing it in the event of an unforseen…
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When I went to get some repair work done, the person I was consulting advised fixing the structural issues and then putting the same ancient dilapidated siding back on the building. The rational? Property taxes. Last summer, we joked about how much the nice flowers my mother had on their porch raised their taxes. They…
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I spent most of a year away from the school after I finished my term. I attended a couple of board meetings because I was asked – on one hand, there was, at the least, the appearance of an unlawful board meeting . . . unlawful because it appeared to violate Montana’s open meeting law.…
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Historically, independent voters, and voters for minor third parties, do not get a large percentage of votes. Often, they’re considered “spoiler” candidates, who lose the election for someone by dra4wing critical support away during a close race. Or their thought of as simply “protest candidates” with no chance of winning. In Montana, for the presidential…
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Not many years ago, if you were faced with a cluster of unacceptable clowns on your ballot, you could write a name in and cast a protest vote. Hell, I guess you still can – the thing is, your write-in protest vote won’t be counted or reported. With the elimination of subsection 7 last year,…