Marty’s photo of the day #2912: When my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, came out, and national reviewers read about Deb’s and my adventures racing a flash flood in Borneo, swimming with piranhas in the Amazon Rainforest, and surviving a hippo attack in Zimbabwe, they all settled on a common line: “Marty Essen and his intrepid wife, Deb.”

Yes, Deb is certainly intrepid overseas, but here at home in Montana, do you think any Republican could tell her what to do?