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19 January 2009

Martha Coakley should have worked as hard as Cheryl Steenson did

Martha Coakley Martha Coakley (that’s Martha on the right, smug instead of senatorial) is trailing in the polls and expected to lose to Republican Scott Brown. The more I learn about this election, the more I’m convinced that Coakley, as Jason Linkins astutely observes in today’s Huffington Post, is losing because she’s smug, lazy, and doesn’t know enough about baseball:

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13 January 2009

Curry says big campaign ad will run on 18 January

Tomorrow is the first day candidates can file for the 8 June primary in Montana. I’m betting that one of the first to submit his paperwork will be Chuck Curry, who is challenging incumbent Mike Meehan for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Flathead County. On his website, Curry promises he will be….

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12 January 2010

Tester’s wilderness bill: amend it, pass it, but don’t brag about it

That’s my position on Senator Jon Tester’s 84-page Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2009. Provided some fixes are made, the good will outweigh the bad, and the bill should become law.

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Pea soup fogs are perfect for green lasers

Pea soup fog northwest of Kalispell, MT

Technical information: 24mm f/2.8 lens on an APS-C DSLR. The horizontal field of view is 52.4 degrees. Ten seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 400. Each laser beam was switched on for 3 seconds.

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