A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis, serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. © James Conner.
We’re back on standard time — and I don’t like it. Writing at Vox, Joseph Stromberg argues that we should observe daylight saving time all year long. He’s right, and his case is irrefutable.
Does the “F” in University of Montana football stand for felony? After losing to Portland State 35–16, three Grizzly football players celebrated by getting themselves busted for burglary in the wee morning hours today. Reports the Missoulian:
Van Ackeren is the third Griz starting linebacker to be arrested this season. Herbert Gamboa received a six-month deferred sentence after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in August after instigating a fight at a house party. Gamboa was suspended for the team’s first home game. Jeremiah Kose had been arrested the same week for failing to appear in court on three misdemeanor traffic violations.
The players are innocent until proven guilty. But their arrests certainly suggest that the university’s athletic programs recruits players for their athletic prowess, not for their good moral character. Is there a way to clean up this mess? Yes. Sweep intercollegiate athletics out of the university. That will require a pitchfork as well as a broom.
The Missoulian’s new website is a disorganized eyesore. It sprawls over my 24-inch display like a broadsheet page of grocery store coupons. If I change the width of my window, the webpage reorganizes itself. In the trade, this is known as “responsive design” because it adapts — shapeshifts — to the space available on the device on which it’s displayed. At Flathead Memo’s headquarters, it’s known as irresponsible design. We promise never to employ it.
Google is behind responsive design. Google believes that soon, almost everyone will visit the internet with smartphones, so Google wants website developers to dumb down their websites to comport with Google’s vision of the future. The Missoulian has dumbed down its website. So have a lot of other newspapers and magazines (two of the worst offenders are the National Journal and The Atlantic).