In what shouldn't be a surprise at all, the Mainstream Media is giving ink to Marvel's resurrection of Captain America.
THIS incarnation of the "Living Legend of World War Two" has an odder history than usual, even for comic characters.
Follow me back to the "Golden Age of Comic Books" below the fold.

My friend, the late Jakob Kurzenburg AKA Jack (King) Kirby ran an art studio with his still-living partner Joe Simon when Comic Books were a new medium.
One of their many creations was the star-spangled, fist-swinging Captain America -- a 4-F who volunteered for a serum which made him a super-soldier.

(Follow me to the Golden Age of Comic Books)

Governor Schweitzer attended a special meeting of the Montana State Board of Education on Thursday. I was a small cog in the  the support staff machinery which set up laptop computers, data projectors, screens, and audio equipment.
He waved at me early in the day, after about the third time I passed the open door of the meeting room. My mind was on my twentieth errand or so, but I looked up in time, and waved back with a smile.
An hour or so later his dog "Jag" came up to me in the hall, and as I greeted the gray Border Collie, I looked up to see Governor Schweitzer smiling above me.
"How are you doing?" he said...

As little ol' Kalispell, Montana makes it's debut on  national television tonight (most of us won't see it until tommorrow), I believe a list of things to watch is in order:

Project 7 -- Not just one whacko, but an organized conspiracy with a "hit list," illegal weapons, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Intimidation in the High School -- Ugly talk seeping down to kids, and teachers threatened to their face by Project 7's leader.

Talk 'Radio Rage' -- Isn't harmless or funny when guns become part of the equation.

Check out my previous diary:
My Town on the Tube!

By first-time diarist Michael Evans of Kalispell, Montana (MT Spaces)

While our country still has a Public Broadcasting System, I am recommending a film called "The Fire Next Time." The program P.O.V. is premiering it on Tuesday, July 12, 2005. I have alluded to this film in a couple of previous comments, but everyone who owns a TV will be able to check out some of the issues affecting MY neighborhood.
The reason I am so enthusiastic about this project is that it showed me a way out of simply resigning myself to sick feelings of disgust after some really nasty events came to a head around here. One local radio station acted like a particularly infected boil, but the disease of factional intimidation and ugly-talk was raging in the body politic already.