A quick update to let any who care know that I'm still alive.
1) I'm still alive.
2) If any y'all haven't voted yet, the day is tomorrow, SO VOTE!
3) If you are voting the Democratic primary, I urge you to vote for Dirk Adams for Senate. Yes, I know that's an unfortunatly cartoonish name. Yes, I am quite well aware that I should have spent the last month campaigning for him and sharing his policy posts on Facilebook. Still, what do you expect when I post here for the first time in months just to let people know that I'm still around, Hummm? Yes, I am aware that some of the dim think that he is a 'fake' Democrat. Bullocks, pun intended.
I got to meet Adams less than 2 months ago in Dillon. He struck me as angry, and I was disappointed that he didn't have more to say about policy, and instead focused on what's wrong wth his establishment opponent. You know what's funny about his anger though? He's pissed over the same things that piss me off, the dark influence of money in political choice, the weak desperation of the Montana Democratic establishment, the political inaction that has led us to the edge of ruin, and the lack of concern for an entire gender that permeates our 'policy'. It's easy to be fed up with posturing anger in our so-called leadership. But think on this: If we elect representatives to be our voice, and we're all pissed off about the above listed things, who better to represent us than a person who shares that anger, chosen to give voice where we have little? I haven't had the time to share these noodlins' online, but that's where I'm coming from. I will vote for Dirk Adams, and I hope you will (have) too.
4) It looks like the city of Bozeman is doing the right thing, recognizing equal protection under the law to all folks. Please forgive me if I sound pompous, but I knew this was coming. Time can't heal all wounds, but it does correct injustice given enough understanding that we are really all in this together.
5) I have spent the last several months correcting a few bad habits. One is this: never engage in online conversation where Larry Kralj has commented more than three times. The second, never engage in any online conversation where Mark Tokarski has been responded to even once. The third is to click immediately away from any thread in which JC shares a self-indulgent anectdote. The result of doing any of those is illfated, cursed ... or put less dramatically, a colossal waste of time. Not a one of them has anything fresh to say, or anything helpful to offer. Just like too many of those they rail against, they haven't accepted the fact that we are all in this together. So it's no use dealing with what they've polluted. I have and will continue to read the blogs, but the comments are a waste anymore. (Food for thought, Pogie.)
In case I don't post again until Football season begins (chorus of angels providing background vocals), y'all have yourself a terrific Summer.
Personal shot aside, congratulations on your self reflective behavior. Takes a man.
Posted by: Mark Tokarski | June 02, 2014 at 07:56 PM
Yeah, we're all like the prisoners in the joke that have numbered all the jokes.
Someone could write a greasemonkey script (or whatever it's called) that replaced everyone's comments with a given emoticon, and no one would notice the difference.
Posted by: CharleyCarp | June 02, 2014 at 08:31 PM
"never engage in online conversation where Larry Kralj has commented" -- full stop.
Posted by: David Sherman | June 04, 2014 at 12:39 AM
Good to smell you, Rob. How is the Bozone battle going?
Posted by: larry kurtz | June 04, 2014 at 11:16 AM
By the way, we believe in freedom of speech to the exact degree that we are willing to tolerate expression of opinions that we do not like. Americans are not big on the
Bill of Rights generally except for the second amendment and that only because people vigorously defend it. The rest have withered away due to neglect and indifference.
Posted by: Mark Tokarski | June 04, 2014 at 01:37 PM
Have a nice break. I'm guessing we'll be hearing from you again, sooner than later. Blogs are like cigarettes, Lord knows how many times we've sworn off 'em, we keep comin' back.
Posted by: Pete Talbot | June 07, 2014 at 09:44 PM