Paranoia Pt 1 March 21, 2017 ……………………………Pages………Hits………Bandwidth ph Philippines ph…… 13,847.. 14,925…. 296.13 MB us United States us… 6,761…. 12,671….. 436.29 MB cn China cn…………….. 2,858….. 2,872….. 13.08 MB Looking… Continue Reading
House Hunting March 20, 2017 The Trib reports that the Duluth City Council wants to address the issue of homelessness. I found these two paragraphs pertinent: “According to the… Continue Reading
Rolling seven March 20, 2017 Sunday the DNT had a story with the pros of a Seventh Hour Day and the many caveats and fears being thrown out to… Continue Reading
Julius H. Barnes March 20, 2017 Last night when I woke up in the middle of the night I picked up the book 1920 – The Year of the Six… Continue Reading
When 87% of Duluth’s 9th graders had the reading skills to function as adults March 20, 2017 I can’t find DNT’s “Bygones” section in today’s online paper but it reported that on this day 20 years ago: “About 81% of Duluth… Continue Reading
Awash in Books March 18, 2017 Thirty years ago I read that an early Chinese leader ordered the destruction of as many ancient Chinese history texts as he could lay… Continue Reading
“Rustling my paperwork” March 17, 2017 Here’s Loren Martell’s take on that last school board meeting and, in particular, my reaction to the suprise reconsideration of retaining Kevin Rupp’s law… Continue Reading
That hotel cleaner you didn’t tip March 17, 2017 “Maybe she wipes your child’s face at day care. Maybe he mops the floors at your church. Maybe she makes the beds in the… Continue Reading
Flint – lost and found March 14, 2017 A few weeks ago I gave my youngest grandson a small box of arrowheads for show and tell. Five were black flint found near… Continue Reading
Two Books and flyover Country March 13, 2017 I read three books for two second grade classrooms at Lowell this morning. One of the students asked me if I’d ever written a… Continue Reading
“Best of Enemies” – Still a good movie 55 years on March 13, 2017 I have mentioned the old David Niven flick Best of Enemies half a dozen times now in the blog. It is not to be… Continue Reading
Luverne Klar Wrassler extraordinaire March 13, 2017 Coach Klar died last Saturday. I got word from the webpage set up for my fellow Mankato High classmates. I will write a little… Continue Reading
Friends in Strange Places – How I meant to start March 10, 2017 Where did the beginning of the last post go? I just discovered I copied all but the first page of it from my computer… Continue Reading
Friends in strange places March 9, 2017 The Duluth School Board is and ought to be paranoid about voters who distrust it. We should be especially concerned about driving more of… Continue Reading
Getting to Maybe, a lunch-time anecdote March 8, 2017 One of my favorite people was Jean Gornik. She ran the Damiano Center and I blame/give credit to her for starting me singing in… Continue Reading
“All animals are equal but… March 8, 2017 …some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell Animal Farm I read this in high school. Apparently, Orwell’s observation is every bit as… Continue Reading
“I am on a data privacy kick” March 8, 2017 My Buddy twitted (as opposed to tweeted) me with this response to my third paragraph in the last post: “9AM [meeting] was strictly personal… Continue Reading
Busy Monday March 7, 2017 This is another one of those “where do I begin” posts. Unlike yesterday which was busy from 9AM till 9:30PM I only have two… Continue Reading
Aborting the €™’s March 4, 2017 I did it. If you put the nonsense symbols, €™, into my search function only three posts pop up – uh, four now including… Continue Reading
Foresight, what might have been, and temper tantrums March 3, 2017 I slaved off-and-on from 5 AM until midnight yesterday to whittle nonsense riddled old posts from 700 offenders to about 80 left today. It’s… Continue Reading