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Make It Wry

Good stuff at Vermont Hum today. 

Naked In Brattleboro

Again.

This time, to protest the wearing of fur coats which requires -- no way around it -- the killing of animals.  But, when you think about it, fur is a renewable resource.  And we can harvest it locally without the heavy helping hand of any multi-national.  If we dress in furs we will, necessarily, need to protect the habitat of the animals whose coats we will be wearing.  This give us even more reason for keeping land open and wild and undeveloped.

Seems like Ms. Cayer ought to put her clothes back on and start protesting in favor of fur coats. 

Back And Forth

One of our contributors received this e-mail from George Cross:

I tried to post a rebuttal to Curt's last column and the site would not take it.  Claimed it was potential spam.  Does this mean that the Tiger is censoring comments and that I am on the "bad list?"

Now This, My Good Sir, Is An Attack Ad

Bare knuckle politics, circa 1800.

PJ

Some of us are still smiling after his talk at our symposium.  This short interview in the Times provides a little more of the same.

“Giving power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
        P.J. O'Rourke

Revenge Of The Baby Boomers

Weekend reading from our featured speaker at the 2007 Vermont Tiger Symposium.  Burlington.  November 30th.  You really do want to be there.

(apologies for the earlier error in the link)

Catfight

meow

Good Stuff

On Vermont politics from the editor of the late and lamented Guardian.

Machiavelli In The Mountains

“He came up to me at an event in Montpelier,” said Zuckerman, “and said we’ve really got to talk about how we’re going to get rid of Jim Douglas, and I think Anthony Pollina should really consider running.”
        Peter Freyne in Seven Days

    This latest on Peter Shumlin, reeks of desperation.  That, or some kind of exquisite calculation.  A while back, Shumlin was pushing Vince Illuzi, for governor.  Illuzi, a Republican, would run as a Democrat. A novel approach, to say the least.  But, hey, what are mere party labels when the future of the state, not to say the planet, hangs in the balance? 

Vermont vs WalMart: The Musical

Reviewed by Alex Beam of the Boston Globe.  Funny stuff. 

(thanks to Dan Barlow at Vermont View)