Belated Mothers Day Hoot May 17, 2006 Boys will be Boys (I deleted this accidentally. Its too good a hoot to be misplaced.) Continue Reading
It takes one to see through the fakes May 17, 2006 I just read the best indictment of right wing punditry. Not coincidentally it was written by a conservative. He doesn’t even give the blogosphere’s… Continue Reading
Photo Op May 17, 2006 From today’s DNT: U.S. Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar is scheduled to visit the Duluth area Thursday. Klobuchar is planning to listen to area residents’… Continue Reading
More Money for the Board? May 17, 2006 The last time the School Board raised its pay was the year before I was sworn in. Evidently the Board is considering whether to… Continue Reading
Minnesota trending GOP despite Bush’s Meltdown? May 16, 2006 The “Captain” exults at the recent Strib poll which shows the GOP hanging tough in Minnesota: “In a surprising result from the Star-Tribune’s Minnesota Poll, the… Continue Reading
28 Boxes May 16, 2006 My latest addition to Old News: “Don requested that the FBI allow him to look through his records. He was permitted into the evidence… Continue Reading
Libertarian ennui May 16, 2006 Why one group of independent minded people won’t become a third party anytime soon. Continue Reading
Cigar Trouble May 16, 2006 My investigations of the Upper Great Lakes scandal has taken me on some unexpected turns as well as a trip down memory lane. I… Continue Reading
Energy Independence – when the wind dies down May 16, 2006 Â Â Last weekend when I was visiting my brother I was introduced to his neighbor. The neighbor, was an engineer who spent last… Continue Reading
Energy Independence Rumpelstilskin May 16, 2006 We subsidized the growing of corn to produce ethanol. What if we just used grass to make it. It turns out that the much… Continue Reading
Americans- Yea or Nay on NSA phone monitoring? May 15, 2006 Polls have varied widely on whether Americans approve of the NSA’s phone monitoring. Mystery Pollster explains: “Well, another day, another — very different —… Continue Reading
Gotch yer number? May 15, 2006 I heard an interesting and partly reassuring conversation on NPR this afternoon. The USA Today reporter who had broken the NSA phone record story… Continue Reading
Small World May 15, 2006 Speaking of the Bye family. . . its such a small world. My next door neighbor in Mankato, Minnesota, Mary Lofy was a friend… Continue Reading
Bye Again May 15, 2006 Don Bye was elected the 8th Congressional District DFL Chairman again over the weekend. The News Tribune’s story says he was the chair for… Continue Reading
A former City Councilor chimes in May 15, 2006 I just got a call from a former city councilor. The Councilor too enjoyed the column. The Councilor also told me that that the UGLRC scandal helped convince them… Continue Reading
Boo May 15, 2006 After my last post I returned to the manuscript and found it a little quicker read. Thank goodness. Before setting it aside to get in a my… Continue Reading
And if they didn’t like what they heard when they were tapping you? May 15, 2006 Matt Yglesias has a few comments on the NSA’s phone tapping everything and everybody a la Big Brother. If you think the Bush Administration wouldn’t… Continue Reading
TMI May 15, 2006 Reading the Boyd manuscripts is going to be a challenge. Its death by a thousand details. I know that in the end a simple… Continue Reading
