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EDITOR’S NOTE LIVIN’ LA VIDA LOCAL Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus (500 B.C.) is known for his doctrine of “universal flux,” the idea that everything is always flowing, always different. Though this is an oversimplified statement on his work and a rather high-handed way of introducing Note this week, it underlines a practice important to me both personally and professionally: embracing change. Without ignoring the value of tradition and longevity, disregarding the need for growth causes stagnation, and here at Boise Weekly, we aren’t about to let moss grow under our feet. In light of that, we’re making two changes to our annual Best of Boise poll. First, we have moved it up. Starting today, March 7, nominations are open, and through March 28 at bob.boiseweekly.com, you can nominate your favorite people, places and things for Best of Boise 2018. The top three nominees in each category will go on the BOB 2018 ballot for voting (April 11-30), so nominate away and help your favorites get on the voting ballot. Second, we’re opening up some of the categories to include non-local businesses—the local-only categories will be clearly marked. When someone moves to Boise, they establish a life and a livelihood here. When they bring or open a business here, they contribute to this community. They pay taxes. They employ people. They often source local materials. They add value. They become our neighbors and our friends. While we here at Boise Weekly—a locally owned and operated business—are diehard supporters of other locally owned and operated businesses, we feel like shutting franchises out of Best of Boise has become elitist and doesn’t allow readers to vote with their hearts, to choose who or what they really think is the best of the best. Change can be scary, but it can also be liberating, exciting and cause for celebration, so go to bob.boiseweekly.com, nominate your faves and join the party! —Amy Atkins
CORRECTION In the Feb. 28 issue (BW, News, “Jumping Toward Connections,” Feb. 28, 2018), we incorrectly listed the opening date of Jack’s Urban Meeting Place. JUMP opened in December 2015 and is now in its third year of operation.
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COUGH IT UP The flu scare is winding down, but now the Central District Health Department says 2018 is a “peak year” for whooping cough, as well. Read more at New/ Citydesk.
STILL TRUCKIN’ At its new brick and mortar in the Boise Spectrum, Mad Mac is serving up its signature mac and cheese—and killer chocolate cake. We dish about the new spot at Food & Drink/Food Review.
GETTING THE GOLD The Olympics may be over, but another set of golden accolades was handed out March 4. Find an update on the the 2018 Oscar winners and their antics at Screen/Screen News.
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OPINION WAR CRIMES
The ultimate judges might not yet be born BILL COPE Some day, on down the timeline a ways when our current events have coalesced into another complete chapter of America’s history, every one of us is going to be asked by a descendant—a son or daughter, a grand-child, perhaps even a great-grandkid, depending on how much time you have left— “Daddy (Mom, Gramps, Nana, P-paw), what did you do in the war?” She (he) will be referring, of course, to the Great Russo-Euro-U.S. Cyberwar—or as it could come to be known “The War To End All Democracies.” And come that day little Jimmy (Janelle, Jerzy, Judy, Jamal, Jessica, Jack, whatever) asks the question, assumedly we will know whether Russia won the war, or democracy. Robert Mueller struck a solid smack for the democracy allies with indictments of 13 Roosky election infiltrators and three Russian companies. But almost everyone agrees that legal action will have little effect on either the strategy to sabotage our electoral processes with false and divisive information, or the strategists behind all that sabotaging. After all, any mega-billionaire, ex-KGB, murdering bastard oligarch who rides horses in Russia shirtless, is not likely to be overly alarmed by a few indictments against some underlings. Da? Nor can we determine, yet, how deep an impact Mueller’s inclusion of these foreign agents in his overall investigation will have upon those Americans who don’t seem to care what they are hearing or from whom they are hearing it, as long as it is “Hillary Clinton is an evil bitch,” “Barack Obama f**ked up everything,” and “Donald Trump is even greater than he says he is!”—or some variation thereon. However, it is obvious to those Americans blessed with an I.Q. somewhere north of abject idiot that the Russian indictments illustrate just how methodical, unrelenting and (I think it’s fair to say) brilliant our Special Prosecutor Mr. Mueller is. It seems inevitable that the layered framework he is constructing will be used to stretch the skins of any number of collaborators—the most notable of which, I suspect, will glow with that sickly irradiated orange patina long after he no longer has access to the tons of makeup it takes to produce it—who knowingly participated in, and actually facilitated, a hostile invasion. So yes, it is increasingly clear where the Mueller investigation is going: 1) establish the authenticity and seriousness of the crime, then 2) nail the criminals. And as the plotline becomes more predictable every time another indictment is issued or another of the Trump goons flips to the prosecution, we grow curious about how there can still be anyone left in the cretin camp who has no worrisome doubts about the future they BOISE WEEKLY.COM
thought they were voting for 16 months ago. I have no delusions that they are changing their minds en masse about the man they chose and are simply too embarrassed to admit it. No, even if the basically-decent-but-fundamentally dumb ones who voted for Trump are losing faith, there are still plenty enough basically demented-and fundamentally dreadful ones—the fascists-bytemperament and Nazis-by-nature, the hateful racist gunk clogging the moral plumbing of our nation—to provide Trump with a loyal base to which even treason is acceptable. Still, even they—the awful-est of the awful—will one day have to answer little Janie’s (Johnny’s) question: “What did you do in the war, Daddy?” And if little Janie is exceptionally precocious, she may continue with a more demanding line of inquiry—e.g.: “Were you one of those who actively resisted the dismantling of two and a half centuries of progress in voting rights, citizen participation, government transparency, and American leadership? Did you fight back when that Trump thug and his flying monkeys hacked away at the very institutions designed to protect the rule of law? Did you stand up for the principles of equality and justice among the races and sexes and social strata... the value of character in those who lead our people... the rejection of institutionalized vice, hate and depravity?” Or... “Daddy, did you sit like a carbuncle on humanity’s ass as our public schools were being dissolved in a pit of privatization acid... as our public lands were dealt out to the greediest swine in the world like so many marked cards in a crooked game... the environmental protections of a half century of accomplishment shredded like financial records in a Mafia lawyer’s office... the American middle class gutted and dismembered like a chicken on a Tyson Foods production line?” Even worse... “Daddy, did you actively contribute to the ruination of everything that ever made America a good and exceptional land, just because you were so damn gullible as to believe a man who never cared about anything in his life but himself would gave a shit about you?” I won’t pretend to guess how Trump people might answer when that day comes. But whether the outcome of this war leaves democracy intact, or we slip irretrievably into the utter chaos of lies and corruption inspired by the Trump/Putin Axis, those people should be aware that it is not today’s Resistance they have to answer to. It is their own offspring. And if democracy loses, I suspect those future generations will be a lot less forgiving than we old vets from the I-Told-YouSo brigades.
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