The Monsters we need – Podcast # 23 May 12, 2022 I mix a little Republican history in this tough podcast about our Congressman. The Monsters We Need. Continue Reading
The Monsters We Need April 29, 2021 My latest Reader Column begins: I was born in the cradle of the Republican Party – Kansas. Despite my 55 years residence in Mayonnaise… Continue Reading
DFL Monsters? February 16, 2017 Loren has a beef with “the DFL-endorsed Board majority.” Whew! Where to begin? I have had some beefs with the majority of the Board,… Continue Reading
Countdown 43 That MF Steve Bannon July 1, 2024 David Brooks wrote this piece for Today’s NY Times: My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon Bannon is Trump’s muse. Trump is Bannon’s useful idiot…. Continue Reading
Liberal, Kansas, illiberal China, Red dupes and political tracts May 27, 2024 I put up my bright new US flag this memorial morning notwithstanding the story I read yesterday suggesting it was southern women after the… Continue Reading
For me its fixing America not winning a damned election……. May 6, 2024 I’m not feeling so rushed today but still on such hurried days I’ll go back to the time signatures to suggest how fast I’m… Continue Reading
Looking for some traction in resuming my writing which has been on hiatus since I missed a Reader deadline six weeks ago. March 23, 2023 As a Lincoln liberal I don’t have any arguments with liberals. I do have some quibbles with the self righteous who cloak themselves in… Continue Reading
Paper Ballots This week’s reader column November 4, 2022 It begins: Last week I noted that in 1860 even in the Southern states, where Abe Lincoln was kept off the presidential ballot, no… Continue Reading
My Prophecy’s 30 years ago June 25, 2022 Two of the stories that caught my eye this morning showed me the blind split personality of the Trumpian universe. The second story was… Continue Reading
My latest in the Reader -Primarying Pete Stauber April 29, 2022 Primarying Pete Stauber Harry’s master calendar to defeat Congressman Pete Stauber on August 9th 2022 The 2020 primary election results shine up at me… Continue Reading
Books I’ve read; 2-9-2022 February 9, 2022 Thaddeus Stevens Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian This was the best rated book on Republican Radical Stevens as near as I could tell. It wasn’t an easy… Continue Reading
Henry Louis Gates April 3, 2019 My eyes are too big for my stomach for history books! These are my library’s selection of books about African-American history and part of… Continue Reading
Primary Countdown 23 Days – The DNT today July 22, 2018 I have more than accomplished what I set out to do when I filed for Congress seven weeks ago… Continue Reading
Dirty Dealing January 27, 2018 Its going to be a quiet and a long day. We’ve done all the sight seeing we are going to do and we will… Continue Reading
In ten years I’ve never used the word “dildo” in my blog… January 4, 2018 …I will today and on an imminently worthy object of scorn. But first I’d like to hint at a silver lining. That hope was… Continue Reading
Mao June 13, 2017 My Mother gave me one of these t-shirts back in the 70’s. Now I’m reading two books out-loud to Claudia that I’ve had for… Continue Reading
Intermission February 24, 2017 I stayed up late to watch Colbert’s latest sketch on national politics. I’m too bushed to begin that post about mulch after all. Instead,… Continue Reading
Lamentations December 1, 2016 Last night I read the third book of the prophets found in the Protestant Old Testament – Lamentations. In the fat little Bible dictionary… Continue Reading
A CORRECTION AND AN APOLOGY TO MY READERS May 29, 2016 First the apology: I posted a letter to the editor written by a Bruce Johnson and proceeded to beat up another Bruce Johnson that… Continue Reading
A must read by Erik Simonson June 6, 2015 I like Rep. Erik Simonson. I didn’t particularly want to. The old Republican in me is still irritated that Duluth continues to automatically elect… Continue Reading
