IS A BLOG A MAGAZINE?

I'm going to experiment a bit.  Often I have short scraps that don't translate into 1,000 blog posts.  What if I put them in boxes, like magazine layouts that have side bars or interruptions?   No ads.

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This didn't work.  It was supposed to be in a box.  I suppose I'm going to have to read the instructions.  Sigh.

 Though I’m aware that communist was an epithet in McCarthy’s time, I also remember that they helped win WWII when fascist was even worse.

My dad worked for farmer co-ops which he had a nearly religious belief in because of growing up on the prairie when people survived by cooperating.  His actual salary came from a supply wholesale cooperative which corporations resented and constantly labeled communist in the worst sense.  In the end it worked because the farmers no longer wanted to take time to cooperate.  The corporations took over and fired my father.

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It's said that Montana is one small town spread over hundreds of miles.  Here's an example.  

Valier has acquired a proper coffee shop with excellent espresso.  This morning I stopped for the first time when I passed by the door on the way back from leaving my filthy pickup with Fitz's auto mechanics now run by Cliffords'.

I live in a house once occupied by Lily "Fitz".

My excellent latte was made by Melissa Peebles, whose husband now runs the Pondera Canal Company, the irrigation owner which operates on shares, a sort of hybrid between corporation and co-op.  Her husband is part of a family connected to dinosaurs that grew out of a little "rock shop" in Choteau, an hour's drive away from here.  

Beginning with Trexler, a notable force and a rock hound, Marion Trexler ran a little museum which expanded into a shop across the street in a former church.

One could say that it celebrates the Beginning with dinosaurs.  Melissa is married to Marion's grandson.
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I get confused by the lawsuits Cohen paid off for Trump.  They were paid for not disclosing "affairs" but in fact those episodes were paid sexwork, cost not disclosed that I remember.  People assume that sex workers enjoy what they do, but the person who is paying for the sex is the one who presumably enjoys.  The sex worker is just doing a job.  It's a bit dangerous because of the dynamics of guilt, control, stereotyping.  The sex worker mind is not on their own ecstasy, but on what will please the customer and bring him back.  Trump was not doing these women a big favor -- it was simply a transaction and I'm guessing not pleasant for the women.  But that's the only way Trump ever treats anything, as a buy/sell transaction.  No different from the concrete business or casinos.  He sued over them, too.