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I love this time of year. The world is so green and shiny it looks expensive. From a distance the green expanse is like a bit of emerald perfection because — and this is the important part — if I don't look too closely I can imagine that it's all green grass. Lovely grass, lush and splendid, for as far as the eye can see. Of course, that's a sham, a lie, a weak grasp at selfdeception. This isn't the lush, expanse of sod-o-glamor it appears to be, for hidden among the grass, waiting to overwhelm it, is a mess of [insert curse...
Now I'm totally confused. Recently, a friend living on the southern edge of Havre had a mountain lion hanging out on her backyard deck for two mornings in a row. A mountain lion. This is normally a shy mountain dweller, and now it's hanging out in the 'burbs of a prairie town like it's panhandling for morning coffee? Seriously? Local Fish, Wildlife & Parks warden Wes Oedekoven said that FWP has noted a slight increase in local sightings in recent years, but this simply may be from the spread of homes to outlying areas. Most...
Maybe you've caught yourself saying something that starts with these words: "Oh, young people these days ... ." And then you go on with something like: they don't know how to work, they're too soft, they're too chubby, they're too arrogant, they don't know nothing, they're always blah blah blah, until you sound like a cantankerous old fart. Frankly, many statistics and much media coverage give weight to a lot of these complaints. And who among the over-30 crowd can't say that they thought they were much smarter than they...
Out of the blue, someone acquainted with my longstanding offensive against the guerrilla units of rodents that frequently overrun my white trash estate said to me: "I haven't read any columns about mice lately — you haven't had any problems with them this spring?" What?! Shhh! Shut your pie hole, fool. I wanted to say. What kind of question is that? I mean, really, does this person, this harbinger of ill luck and doom, not understand how the universe works? You don't go drawing attention to some things, like really good t...
Prior to moving to the plains of north-central Montana, my only knowledge of rattlesnakes came from an incident when I was a teenager. One afternoon Mike, a friend of my parents, called my dad in a panic to say that he was out of town and talking to his wife on the phone when she let out a classic blood-curdling scream, and then the phone went dead. He asked Dad to go check on his wife, Laurel. Dad, having honed his law enforcement skills in the rougher 'hoods of Los Angeles before becoming a Montana Fish & Game warden, went...
After reading Paul Foy's June 1 Associated Press article, "Woman sues Google over Utah walking directions," Pamville News has learned that a woman is suing Google Maps over what she claims were unsafe directions that resulted in her bodily injury. Lauren Rosenberg of Los Angeles, Calif., was visiting Park City, Utah, in January, when she used her Blackberry to access Google Maps for directions to walk from one end of the town to the other. The Google Maps directions led her to a four-lane boulevard that did not have a...
Of all the miraculous advances in medicine that could be made, such as curing cancer, re-growing nerves and producing a medical marijuana plant that doesn't attract law enforcement, scientists at the European fertility conference in Rome reported that they now can use a blood test to predict the onset of menopause. That's fabulous. Earth shattering really. Thanks guys. Now women all over the world can plan ahead to be miserable. Seriously, most women like to plan — even I like to plan. I could sit around all day planning t...
