Somewhere, in a land far, far away from The Island, there is a place called Missoula, Montana, where the Independent serves as the community's alt-weekly. A ranch-handling reader alerts us to an item from the Independent's events listing (at right), in which karaoke and bowling are likened to that other peanut-butter-and-jelly pairing, Israeli bombing and U.S. bombs. Um, okay.

This concludes your disturbing update from west of the Hudson.

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