Thursday I left in the dark to be at the eye doctor in Great Falls at 8:30 AM. Eighty mile drive, clear dry road, rackety old pickup. Rackety old driver. I fastened my seat belt. I do not take the iPod because I think while I drive. I drive this road at least once a month. If there is a blizzard or a lot of ice, I don’t go. Along the road is a sign that tells me where...

Okay, so you’re a Native American kid sitting in the gymnasium in Poplar, Montana, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation wondering who’s mad about what now, because there’s no assembly geek doing a set-up on the floor and that’s the only other explanation. You’re happy to be out of class where you never get what’s going on anyway. The new principal takes the...

The Internet comes with many positives and many negatives, the latter especially for entertainment industries. If you thought only Japan or South Korea were the countries that had the highest rate of movie piracies, then think again. More than 50% of internet users in South Korea commit movie “piracies” by downloading them off of hundreds of websites that...