This’n that before I hit the sack March 13, 2018 I had the house mostly to myself today as Claudia went to St. Paul to lobby our legislature with folks worried about the poor… Continue Reading
Bread and Circuses March 12, 2018 A lot is on my mind again. When I don’t post stuff it builds up like bran in a constipated elephant. This and the… Continue Reading
Mon Grand Fils March 12, 2018 I spent the last couple days of the week in a fierce competition with an anonymous opponent on my cell phone trying to put… Continue Reading
A sick feeling March 8, 2018 It is only a sense of deep obligation to keep my eight loyal readers focused on our nation’s future that keeps me away from… Continue Reading
Trip down Market Street March 6, 2018 A couple days before the San Francisco Earthquate the Mile’s brothers put a movie camera on a trolley (infamous for their third rails) and… Continue Reading
I’m getting worried about the world and might prefer… March 6, 2018 …BEING LOST IN SPACE. I am a lucky man. That is, I suppose, apropos of nothing but it seems a good way to begin… Continue Reading
The pessimists that the Trib’s editors complained about… March 5, 2018 …are off the Duluth School Board. The optimists that replaced us have just been handed a budget that is a couple million dollars deeper… Continue Reading
My latest Not Eudora March 1, 2018 …from today’s Duluth Reader The Wayning of America. It begins: A recent New York Times story explained how the Arizona Legislature came up with… Continue Reading
I will have something to say about today’s story… February 28, 2018 …about Duluth’s graduation rates. And maybe even tie it in with the latest scolding of the District over setting Twain and Harper Lee on… Continue Reading
As Minnesota is pulled down by gravity and sun February 28, 2018 My children and my wife make sport over me whenever I began talking about natural phenomena. They all call out “glaciers!” when I get… Continue Reading
Thanks to the New York Times for recognizing… February 27, 2018 …that in the 2018 Olympics “it was more like Team Minnesota.” Continue Reading
I subscribe to the Duluth News Tribune but… February 27, 2018 I encourage you to help fund John Ramos who (as of this posting)is one hundred dollars short of his goal of $3600 which he… Continue Reading
Half read books February 26, 2018 I have finished reading two books so far this year but have been unable to upload them to my lifetime reading list for technical… Continue Reading
Twain said… February 23, 2018 Every man is a moon and has one side he never shows the world. Until the era of Internet. https://www.facebook.com/bobby.drengler/posts/1693776590661667 Continue Reading
It turns out that I am a socialist February 22, 2018 NRA warns of socialism. Our government should warn Americans from traveling to any nation in Europe. Continue Reading
Parting is such sweet sorrow February 19, 2018 For the past several weeks Supt. Gronseth’s right and left arms have been negotiating contracts for their own superintencies. Amy Starzecki is headed to… Continue Reading
News from Palm Beach February 19, 2018 Attendance dropped as much as 90 percent at a gun show 52 miles and four days removed from Florida’s deadliest school shooting amid controversy… Continue Reading
Trump’s neo communist dupes February 19, 2018 The troll factory And if you doubt Pogo read this: https://nyti.ms/2C8tU0o. And yes I know. The title for this post mostly serves to add… Continue Reading
Before the Black Panther February 18, 2018 I am very pleased by the success of the new Black Panther movie. My littlest grandson, as white as he can be, has been… Continue Reading
Help a rare truth teller to keep Duluth honest February 18, 2018 John Ramos Gofundme Continue Reading