Here today, gone tomorrow

Did you hear about amazon.com’s stupendous blunder last week? They took back books that people had purchased from them. Seems as though amazon didn’t have the legal rights to sell the book (ironically, it was Orwell’s ‘1984′), so they just went and grabbed it back.

Putting aside visions of jack-booted thugs [...]

Sustainability and the MBIA

With Ryan Morton (Community Affairs Director for MBIA) and Kathy Greathouse (chair, MBIA Government Affairs Committee) running for Missoula City Council, it is understandable that the activities of the MBIA (Missoula Building Industry Association) will get some scrutiny.
Take, for instance, a paid advertisement in today’s Missoulian (p. A10, not available online?) written by John Freer, [...]

Meet the boy for Ward One

Missoula Building Industry Association (MBIA) candidate for City Council (Ward 1), Ryan Morton, invited us all down to the Missoula County Democrats Central Committee last night. He’s been prolific with his commenting in the blogosphere and let’s say my interest was peeked!
So I went along to meet the wunderkind. And, lo [...]

Big Banks. Fail.

Starting today four on the nation’s biggest banks stopped accepting IOUs from the cash-strapped state of California.
Check the list:

Bank of America,

JPMorgan Chase & Co.,

Wells Fargo & Co., and

Union Bank of California.

Recognize some of the names? Yep, they’re many of the same ones that you and I bailed out with federal [...]

His Lordship

“The most important thing I achieved today was catching more fish than the director of FWP, ” said Gov’nur Schweitzer.
Last Friday, he was one of the first legal people to float through the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers.   That’s right – the river is ready for floating, and by all accounts, [...]