No Vegetarians at the Food Bank

After a sardonic and slightly snippy post like the one below, we're not perhaps in the proper frame of mind to talk about charity ourselves, but we want to draw readers' attention to a beautiful post at one of MH's favorite non-political blogs: Montana Jones.

Montana Jones writes about volunteering at the local food bank. MH is of the opinion that there is no organization more important than one's local food bank, and that it deserves the top spot one's donation list. MJ takes it a step further and talks about... well, just read it yourself.

Sen. Tester's Turkey Day shenanigans

Well, our illustrious Sen. Tester has made the Washington gossip columns with his suave ways.

Specifically, he was headlined today in the Politico's "Shenanigans" column by Anne Schroeder Mullins. Apparently he was in such a hurry to get his Thanksgiving turkey, that he committed the faux pas of cutting in line in front of all the waiting hungry diners at a Senate restaurant buffet:

Meanwhile, freshman Sen. Jon Tester (D) walks in. He’s hard to miss — he’s huge, for one, and, two, buzz cuts don’t often go unnoticed these days. This being his first year and all, the farmer from Montana failed to recognize the hordes of people waiting in line and cut right in. Tsk, tsk.

“It was pretty bad, but no one said anything; they just rolled their eyes,” explained our spy, now aggrieved.

“For a man of the people who bragged that he was just a simple farmer, he was pretty quick to pull the ‘senator’ card and cut in line to get his food before everyone else,” our little eagle eye said. “And it is not like there was a vote or anything.”

As we approach the 1 year anniversary of Montana Headlines, it is perhaps appropriate that we have the privilege of commenting on a tidbit like this.

We predicted on our first day of operation that while the much-maligned Conrad Burns got a lot of eye-rolling and tsk-tsk-ing press for every social misstep that "embarrassed Montana," we anticipated that a good face would be put on things that would have been shocking had Burns done them.

It's amazing how much more sophisticated one is considered to be if one shares the correct politics of the smart set.

And we recall an early example of just that.

But we're probably wrong -- look for for this troubling "Gobble-gobble-gate" episode to be dissected on Montana's editorial pages by editors deeply concerned about Montana's image in D.C.