The condition of African Americans in Duluth September 8, 2014 Its not great. First there is this in the Trib today. On the reading test, black students, who make up 8.5 percent of the… Continue Reading
Pulling our trousers down August 14, 2014 Prepare yourself for a little TMI. Not up on your acronyms? TMI = “too much information.” And to start this post at 2AM here’s… Continue Reading
Reality August 13, 2013 The Republican Party today is the John Wilkes Booth Party. It really frosts my eye glasses. My oft mentioned “Buddy” used to email me… Continue Reading
Email glitches – Dammit – and pedophile priests July 3, 2013 Before sneaking back to the room I decided, on a whim, to see if the Reader Weekly had acknowledged the receipt of my column…. Continue Reading
Spitting on the Stripper April 16, 2013 I haven’t written anything on the blog for ten days. Its not for want of subject matter. The depredations of Boston certainly call for… Continue Reading
Boston April 15, 2013 One of the top women finishers at Boston today used to run by my house every day in high school as she practiced for… Continue Reading
North Dakota’s blankety blank Republicans March 26, 2013 North Dakota’s GOP has taken the lead on fighting abortion having made it illegal from six weeks after conception. That’s one part of their… Continue Reading
Speedy justice is less expensive justice February 20, 2013 My Church’s men’s group had the St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman drop by and talk to us last week. He spent a fair… Continue Reading
Could your local police force be as corrupt as this? February 20, 2013 Courtesy of the New York Times by way of my Buddy: “The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying… Continue Reading
The pernicious effects of the GOP getting all Dixiecrat on the nation. February 15, 2013 After inviting Southern Whites into the Party leading them to take it over and kick out distastful Republicans its worth pondering the results. The… Continue Reading
Our own Jim Fetzer has some good company January 18, 2013 Conspiracies about Sandy Hook are running amok. Note to Jim. Even Glenn Beck is trying to debunk them. Continue Reading
Time for a new abolition movement January 15, 2013 Re: my enthusiasm for American Experience “For profit” prisons Prison labor has long been banned in various states from competing on the free market… Continue Reading
The first beneficiaries of the Second Amendment… December 19, 2012 …owned muskets and guns that had to be reloaded after a single shot and had to make their own bullets. “I am certainly not… Continue Reading
When God abets rape October 23, 2012 The GOP purges centrists like Senator Dick Lugar and replaces them with creatures like this guy: GOP Senate candidate Mourdock: When rape results in… Continue Reading
America’s “holocaust in slow motion” October 16, 2012 For those eager, too eager perhaps, to close done the Last Place on Earth a sobering documentary is coming your way. Continue Reading
Vast and spurious… June 27, 2012 …The GOP Assault on the “Fast and Furious” scandal. Continue Reading
At least the police are protecting blacks from white people now. February 14, 2012 Last night’s PBS program on “Slavery by Another Name” was very good and a coup for the Minnesotan’s who produced it. We are far… Continue Reading
A criminal business February 9, 2012 In the good old days the government simply hired prisoners out to perform salary free hard labor for quarries, mines and other dangerous businesses… Continue Reading
Rape and Order February 4, 2012 In case you ever wondered why there is so much body building equipment in American prisons: After asking around, and performing some calculations, the… Continue Reading
