31 May 2011
Posted by Shane Castle 
By 7:30 on Tuesday morning, facilities-maintenance worker Rod Fleming was already on the job, trying to scrub away propaganda left at Capital High by a covert guerrilla force known only as the Lawn Gnome Liberation Front. Removing twenty or thirty lawn gnomes from the rooftops was going to prove...
Read more → 25 May 2011
Posted by Shane Castle As Montana's rivers continue to swell with higher-than-average rainfall, as the torrents wash out banks and spread out into the flood plains, as people evacuate their homes, as others yet mourn the loss of a dear neighbor and friend, Helenans living along creeks are starting to face their own scaled-down...
Read more → 23 May 2011
Posted by Shane Castle 
According to Familyradio.org's ancient so-called prophet, the apocalypse was supposed to begin on May 21, 2011, at 6 p.m. Heavenly ascensions were supposed to flow like a giant wave from time zone to time zone. So at 6 p.m. Rocky Mountain Time, fellow Vigilante correspondent Sam Lavin and I headed...
Read more → 23 May 2011
Posted by Shane Castle Imagine you're in your early twenties, a college student and a citizen somewhere outside the United States. You can't help but know certain things about America because its culture, government and corporations extend beyond its borders, across every sea and even out into space. You've read about its people...
Read more → 23 May 2011
Posted by Sam Lavin Everyone who has eaten an ice cream cone knows that, if you don’t eat your ice cream fast enough, it will melt. It is a race against time. If you don't focus and really put effort into the process, you and your dessert are screwed. Under normal circumstances, a strategically placed napkin...
Read more → 15 May 2011
Posted by Conrad Evarts 
Editor’s note: This week, The Vigilante's class-war correspondent responds to a recently circulated video of Representative Dennis Rehberg trying to commiserate with working people by calling himself land rich but cash poor. My dad’s terminal cancer wiped him out financially....
Read more → 15 May 2011
Posted by Sven B. 
FHkjdhf h sdhfosoi osdjfhsdo. Did you catch that? I bet not. You know why? Because it's a bunch of gibberish I made up hoping you'd understand just because I hoped you were some kind of mind reader like apparently one local coffee shop owner thinks we all are. Last week, I was riding...
Read more → 15 May 2011
Posted by Sam Lavin I found these little gems selling for $1.49. The rubber bracelets have titles on them for the wearer like DIVA, VIP and FEARLESS. I couldn’t find any for LAMEWAD, SKEEZY or MEDIOCRE, which I felt were a more accurate reflection of the intended wearer. Ah, c’est la vie… The phenomena started...
Read more → 11 May 2011
Posted by Shane Castle Valley Bank has agreed to maintain a donation fund for the Helena rare-fish shop that recently had most of its stock killed by some asshole who threw handfuls of chlorine granules in its central aquariums, killing dozens of fish and corals. Anyone interested in helping Underwater World owner Bob Kavajecz...
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