Jackson Hole Underground

By now you may have heard about the home page of John McBush McCain, where alongside his campaign strategy and Iraq policy is an equally weighted section devoted to “Golf Gear.” An indication of the demographics of his supporters, and his savvy grasp of the Internets.

The site has brought him blogospheric ridicule, but less funny is McCain’s latest assertion that it’s “not too important” when U.S. troops come home from Iraq. In this clip (after jump) he stresses that reducing casualties is what’s essential, oblivious to the fact that every day our soldiers are mired in a hostile land, away from their families, at a cost of $343 million per day, is a casualty for American taxpayers.

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You may have noticed, and chuckled like I did, when the John McCain ads began appearing en masse on this site earlier this week.

I have little control over the Google ads on the right of the page. The content usually is generated by Google to match the content of the posts, and I happened to write about Republican Party politics just as McCain claimed a huge win in Florida and embarked on a fund-raising drive.

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John Perry Barlow, the former Grateful Dead songwriter and Sublette County rancher, will appear on “The Colbert Report” tonight on Comedy Central.

Barlow is co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group devoted to protecting freedom in cyberspace.

EFF recently joined a lawsuit against Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, over a video parody of “The Colbert Report” posted on YouTube. Viacom had the clip, titled “Stop the Falsiness” and produced by MoveOn.org and Brave New Films, taken down from the site.

Former EFF staffer and Jackson bard/freelancer Dennis Derryberry passed along the following letter from Barlow inviting friends to watch the show. An unlikely (and conflicted) Wyoming Republican, Barlow also shares some sharp political insight.

Here’s a snippet:

For one thing, you ironists ought to enjoy the sight of someone who looks, talks, and behaves like a Republican, but isn’t, interviewing someone who fits none of the contemporary Republican stereotypes,
but is.

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They almost seemed too unreal to be true.

The mountain lion photos spreading by e-mail around Jackson Hole this week (and posted here Tuesday night) may not have been shot in Rafter J, as alleged.

Mark Gocke of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department says no sightings have been reported in the suburban subdivision three miles south of town. Gocke received the same e-mail.

It’s highly unlikely that if someone had a mountain lion snarling on their back porch they wouldn’t have reported it to some sort of authority, which would have passed along the tip to Game and Fish.

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