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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Losing Dreams
Don’t take this wrong – I’m old enough that I taught at TSJC when the only surgeon in the US performing transexual surgery was Stanley Biber at Mount San Rafael hospital – across the Purgatory and downstream a bit from the college. My colleague down the hall described the most horrifying part of a motorcycle Read more
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When was the last election?
It feels a bit odd to be asking “When was the last time there was an election?” about something local. As a kid, I sort of assumed that elections happened everywhere in our country, as scheduled, and it was only foreign countries that lacked elections. Unfortunately, it’s a question worth asking. About the Trego School Read more
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The Value of the Spoils System
It’s at least 50 years ago that Bob Brown and I listened attentively to Matt Himsl in Kalispell, as the old politician took out the sacred cow of the value of civil service, elegantly put it to death, and delivered it to the grill as he explained what Montana had lost by going to civil Read more
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It’s that time of the year
Everything that has been hibernating or dormant for the winter will soon be active again- this means bears (it’s time to start watching for them) and wasps (get the traps up early!) And a reminder- it isn’t just time to start trapping wasps, it’s also important to consider what they are eating. The best bait Read more
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When Definitions Don’t Fit
Definitions change – sometimes quickly, sometimes not so quickly. Sometimes the folks who change definitions do it deliberately, wanting to deceive. Now the term “Progressive” has changed a couple of times . . . or perhaps I could say was developed around 1900, then: “The word “progressive” comes to us from the early twentieth century, Read more
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Not all data is relevant
Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt. During the mission, Schmitt unintentionally breathed in some lunar dust and for the rest of the day exhibited signs similar to hay fever or an allergy — sneezing and watery eyes. In 1972, the NASA doctors thought he was allergic to the Moon. Since there are only a dozen people who Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 