Rock Creek, Montana It was cooler yesterday and much cooler last night on the creek. For the first time in a week we had some clouds. There were reports of a large fire in the Bitterroots over the mountains from us. The air had been smoky in town, but was still clear along the Sapphires …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Trump Military Assault Revives Vietnam and the Draft
Rock Creek, Montana One nice thing about being mostly off-the-grid for a bit is missing the daily craziness of the emerging political campaign in the United States. Reading the latest news of Donald Trump’s assault and disrespect of the Muslim parents of a fallen soldier in Iraq in 2004 was simply mind-boggling. Is there really …
Class in America – It’s Every Where!
Rock Creek, Montana Even in this age of fierce and abiding inequality and concentration of wealth, in the United States we undoubtedly have more “class deniers,” than we have “climate deniers.” LSU Professor Nancy Isenberg is fearless and uncompromising in her determination to call as many of them out as she can in her book, …