The Rascal Fair

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Welcome to the 10th edition of The Rascal Fair! Above is a Flickr Badge of photos from The Big Sky group, founded by Dave at The Big Sky Blog, to provide a place for Big Sky Bloggers to strut their stuff. Montanans are a quirky folk, reserved and welcoming, reticent and opinionated -- as a perusal of Big Sky Blogs will quickly demonstrate.

[Warning: I get to generalize about Montanans, because I am one -- fourth generation -- if you aren't, you don't. We're like that.]

The Rascal Fair is a venue for Montana bloggers to show off their best posts; but, being natur'lly modest, they sometimes need a kick in the butt to do so. Which I didn't do this week. The result being that we have only three self-selected entries:

From Karen, we have a question and good discussion on cane vs. beet sugar -- complete with illustrations.

From Sarpy Sam, we have Who is the Criminal? -- note that Montanans are a questioning bunch.

From Randy, we have -- sadly -- Napoleon RIP, a fine tribute to a feline friend.

Now, since I didn't do my part by getting out there to round folks up, I'm going, in the best Montana tradition, hunting. There are far too many Montana bloggers for me to visit them all today, so I will stick with those I regularly read, and select my favorite posts of the past week or two.

Wulfgar!, as usual, has been doing a bit of political blogging -- but I'm going to choose his most recent post, for its, ummm, interestingness.

Pandora has been doing some audio posts that tempt me, but instead I chose her visit to the Farmers' Market.

Oh, that David. Always goes for the controversy. Also for the facks. [Truly, I don't know what the Montana blogosphere would do without David.]

Ed Kemmick has a thoughtful piece on Hiroshima.

Hollywood & Montana wonders about Californians and Montana.

Matt sees some hope that spirituality can have a positive impact on humanity rather than being used for shallow political gain. [Matt provides a correction: ". . . credit where credit is due. That post was from one of my "contributing editors" -- cgnick."] 

Zachary has a great post on the earthquake (I know, that was awhile ago...)

Here's another older one: Montana Jones on blogging anonymously.

Patia is on her August break, but she left us with some funnies.

Craig, usually quite serious, offers a Star Trek Quiz, which I intend to take as soon as I finish this post.

Prairiemary has been serializing a story, One Windy Day, which will take some time and is worth it; and today has a piece on Charles Lummis.

rennan promises to post some of his music (oh yeah, and tells us his band will soon be on PBS)!

Kim has been having so many adventures -- it causes me youth nostalgia, I tell ya.

& TL Hines is suffering that consequence of a book deal that most writers hope for: The Boomerang Effect.

I bet some of these folks don't even know I read them -- but I do. My contribution for today is not necessarily my best post, but the most apropos: The Last Best Place. And let me just shortcut you directly to the Save The Last Best Place Wiki.

In closing, I offer a Flickr Badge from the Missoula group -- my own little lefty corner of Montana:

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Comments

[Matt Singer]

Sharon, thanks for the link, but I have to give credit where credit is due. That post was from one of my "contributing editors" -- cgnick.

[Pandora]

Good job, Sharon. Yeah, I am one of those "modest bloggers" who could have used a kick in the butt this time! Thanks for including me. :-)

[Sarpy Sam]

Sorry I'm so late, I have been real busy. Really good job on the Fair, I enjoyed it.

[david]

Sharon, you absolutely ROCK! Great roundup!

[TL Hines]

Hi, Sharon, and thanks for including me in the latest edition!

[moos]

Hunting - another MT tradition! Great job, Sharon.