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Josk Vanek, local medicine man behind Wantage, KBGA’s Ultra-Mega Ultra Blast, and the venerable Total Fest, is fucking pumped. But he might really be dying for a Pepsi. No matter the reason, Mr. Vanek is a man full of ‘em. Cringe no more, Missoula, your answer to a…
East Missoula - Best Rate Sin Town
I met Ben Weiss shortly after moving to Missoula a little over two years ago: first as the GM of local radio powerhaus KBGA and then later as a member of the kosmiche-loving band Modality. Over the course of that time it’s been pretty awesome to know someone so down-to-earth and generally…
One of my closest human friends has a birthday in February. In most of the memories I have of his birthday parties, it is dark because it gets dark at 5PM here in the winter. People get really drunk because there is nothing else to do in this fucking place in February. It’s not that happy summer drunk either - it’s winter drunk; the drunk with the halo of dissatisfaction. I have heard that birthday sex helps with this feeling.
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I’ve always wanted to be able to do something like this. But I’d probably just end up spilling boiling liquid on a hamster in a wheel and somehow lighting my pubic hair on fire.
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The corporations that occupy Congress. - David Cay Johnston
Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardized, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose promoters attempt to wrong-foot justice by pitching it against liberty. By this means they have turned ‘freedom’ into an instrument of oppression.
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
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The first “War on Christmas” was waged almost 400 years ago by our Puritan forefathers. The Pilgrims who came to America in 1620 were outraged by Christmas, partially because it did not originate as a Christian holiday. The upper classes in ancient Rome celebrated Dec. 25 as the birthday of the sun god Mithra. Beyond that, the Puritans considered it historically inaccurate to place the Messiah’s arrival on Dec. 25. They thought Jesus had been born sometime in September. They felt so strongly about the holiday that in New England, they banned Christmas celebrations entirely. Christmas Day was only formally declared a federal holiday in 1870.
