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Because size matters to many Montana motorists (and the distances here make motorists of everyone), I knew something was terribly wrong this summer when hybrid cars started popping up around me. What were golf carts doing on Western highways? I wondered whether they had been here for a while and I just hadn't noticed their low profiles from the vantage point of my 1-ton pickup, which is jacked up so high that the average Toyota Prius could drive underneath it without a scratch. Or had I ignored the cute scooters out of my own guilt...
Then last month, in a small-town bakery, I overheard this astonishing conversation: "I'm sorry that I got here late from Billings, but I'm trying to drive 55 these days. It's nice. You can really appreciate the scenery." In Montana, scenery is for tourists and not a thing that most residents ever talk about. Nor do they boast of driving a hundred miles at the speed of a John Deere tractor hauling hay. I butted in and asked the slowpoke if she had truly enjoyed her drawn-out trip or if it was just a civic-minded...
...history concentrator from Mather House. After a year in Tanzania and Montana learning Swahili and reforming school politics, respectively, he is once again writing “The Learning Curve,” a column focusing (mostly) on undergraduate education, which will run on alternate Mondays...
...without fear of retribution. I pondered the matter for a few minutes and decided to address it on the website, with special attention to the who?d accused me of being a racist right-wing gun-nut merely because I?d mentioned in a blog that I resided in Montana...
...Since bloggers burn through their material pretty quickly, they can?t afford to waste a single thought, especially one that?s backed by strong emotion. My rebuke to the Montana-bashers expanded into an essay on ?geo-bigotry,? or prejudice based on region. I considered it the best blog entry I wrote that week, mostly because it arose spontaneously out of an interaction with my audience that could only have happened on the Internet. Interactivity is exhausting, though, and after two more days at my computer I decided that the future could go ahead without me. I lay down...