Trego's Mountain Ear

I was pushing the cart through Walmart’s baking aisle when I was jostled, something hard hitting me below my left hip.  It got my attention – the jostler was a fat lady, probably under 30, heavily tattooed arms, and a mouth and nostrils surrounded by piercings capped in pink plastic.  The hard object was a Read more

This YouGov survey shows how working class respondents felt about some issues.  It may explain why the political experts/consultants aren’t hitting their predictions as well as they would like. Read more

I think Pogo was supposed to be an opossum.  He definitely didn’t look like an opossum, so I may be incorrect – but Pogo was a comic strip in the first third of my lifespan.  Probably his finest moment was in this panel: Pogo said it first: “We have met the enemy and he is Read more

I ran across a new website last week – well, new to me anyway.  Just Facts Daily The article I looked at explained why the FBI data on murder is low.  I had always figured that murder data had to be the best data . . . except for Jimmy Hoffa, whose body was reportedly Read more

Last week, the topic was geography – how a county that was set up to work easily in 1909 became unworkable when Libby Dam split it into two disconnected pieces.  Essentially, the miles between Pinkham Creek and Jennings Rapids left the county disconnected.  Today, the topics are outgrowths of that disconnect. Let’s start with the Read more

I scored a copy of Dorothy Johnson’s book The Bloody Bozeman. It was published in 1971, and Don Boslaugh had a new copy – so I got to read a couple of chapters- but I was twenty-one with a lot of other priorities on my limited cash flow. Between cars, guns and tools, hardbound first Read more