Humdrum of have and have-nots should cease

Tick-tock, tick-tock — familiar sounds that elope native minds in a serenade of life and circumstance! I wonder, therefore, if life isn't the fabric woven by discrete portions of time? Take for instance, Ward B. McCartney, III, who touts in last week's editorial, "Stop Immigration!" Citing the cost of housing from 1990 and targeting out-of-state residents who dislocate, McCartney, III, righteously suffixed, displays the unripened mind of everyone who roused from the 90s to greet his or her neighbor. The suffix is a funny thing; it's like an abbreviation for, not the original, removed, farther down the line. Which coincides with the regurgitating argument that Whitefish should remain unchanged. A small island unaffected by economic climate and immune to foreign occupation.

Let's pretend somewhere in the short succession of recurring names there exists an inability to search for a better noun. For instance, "immigration?" Now I'm having visions of suburbanites setting sail in their white mini-vans and finding anchorage in Whitefish. And I've stared at the stars long enough to know that sometimes you have to draw the line between immigration and emigration. But, let's not get fancy and call it migration. And now that we're on the subject, Whitefish was nothing more than a nebula one century erstwhile.

A word to the loco-yokels, if you've ever postmarked a letter Stumptown, Mt., you can call yourself a native. Everyone else has tender feet and a responsibility to unburden local inhabitants of selfish appeals that cloud the press. The humdrum of have and have-nots should cease with the ideological sense that we can run politics at the tavern. Overcast causalities and ostracism of countrymen, unspeakable. To Ward B McCartney, who proudly calls himself the third — what about the wife going to work, mortgage rates dropping from 13 percent, bull markets — tick-tock, tick-tock?

I want a Saab 9-3 Vector Sedan, should I blame my neighbor? Maybe I should write the car manufacturer and ask him for an affordable price? Wait, maybe my local government will subsidize? No, McCartney, III, maybe you should migrate to Conrad, Mt. Where housing prices are still $30,000.

Brendan Whitcomb

Phoenix, Ariz.