Arkansas court backs gay foster parents
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas cannot ban homosexuals from becoming foster parents because there is no link between their sexual orientation and a child’s well-being, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.
The court agreed with a lower court judge that the state’s child welfare board had improperly tried to regulate public […]

I guess I should point out that we have a new Bozeman blogger as of a couple days ago: Rebels Are We. I don’t know how much blogging he’ll be doing in the near future, but I thought I’d point that out.

It seems that An Inconvenient Truth is in Helena and Missoula this Saturday. Maybe I should check it out.
Is anyone else from around here going (I ask that knowing full well I quite possibly have only one Bozeman reader)?
UPDATE: Well, as Sheena points out in the comments, it’s actually playing here on Friday and Saturday. […]

I’ve haven’t had much to say about this. And I haven’t been paying much attention to the issue. After arguing with Budge over a fairly insignificant side argument about government impact on the Internet, I became a little more interested.
There are a couple issues here, for me. One is the effect on the sort of […]

I’m tired of this right brain-left brain talk. You know, the left side of your brain is the logical, calculating part and the right is the creative, emotional part. I realize most people use it as more of a harmless analogy, but it’s not an accurate one:
Many a myth has grown up around the brain’s […]

No surprise there, eh? Here’s a bit from the E-brief:
Repealing The Death Tax Is Important To Montana Farmers And Small Businesses
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“Only 30 Percent Of Family Businesses Make It To The Second Generation And 13 Percent Survive To The Third.” (Op/Ed, Dick Patten, “Estate Tax Hurts Family Businesses,” Seattle Post - Intelligencer, July 28, 2005)
This is […]

The Marianas story is connected to the Abramoff scandal, but it doesn’t depend on it. Corruption is an excuse for Burns’s behavior. If you want to argue that the donation he received didn’t affect his vote, you’re arguing that Burns has put a devotion to money in general (rather than a devotion to getting more […]

WND seems to think we’ve found WMDs in Iraq:
The U.S. has located some 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003 with more likely to be found, according to two Republican members of Congress trumpeting a newly declassified portion of a government report.
“We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons,” Sen. Rick Santorum, […]

A nice quote:
As evidence of my sincerity, consider that recitation of the Pledge is not mandatory. If we atheists really hated America, we wouldn’t care what the Pledge said, because we wouldn’t say it anyway. On the contrary, Newdow’s lawsuit must betoken a deep and abiding love for his country, because only a real and […]

Saw a new anti-Tester ad today. It’s another version of the haircut ad, which I guess we’ve seen three of so far. This one chides Tester for not supporting the gay marriage ban and “thinking flag burning is alright.” Pretty pathetic. I guess the issues Burns wants this campaign to be about are demonizing gay […]