rakemag In regards to the “art” exhibit at the Walker Art Center, a wire-mesh wooden box with lizards, snakes, scorpions and crickets: As the great poet Alice Walker said, animals exist for their own reasons. They do not exist for our own amusement, entertainment, experimentation or for our “art” exhibits. Sad typical animal exploitation. Did those … Read more
Sure, Minnesota’s not the Old West, but we do have plenty of cattle, and some prairie, too. Nor are steel-toed boots, Wranglers, and Stetsons a rarity—it’s just that cool cowboy duds became a bona fide fashion trend once hipsters began putting them on with an ironic touch. These days, Western gear can be spotted at … Read more
Katherine Kersten is a carbuncle on the ass of the Star Tribune. I said a few weeks back I was going to swear off Katherine, because she’s such an easy target, but damnit, yesterday she just made me mad all over again. The story was one of her usual: the good soldier, or the good … Read more
This was the hand I used to hand over the payments to the “scholars” A month or so ago, I took the Strib to task for their uncritical printing of a letter which opined that conservative think tanks were staffed by those whose conservative views prevented their hiring by legitimate universities. More on that topic … Read more
Another big hand for MN Publius for outing Pat Shortridge, Mark Kennedy’s campaign manager. No, he’s not gay…he’d cost too many Christian votes. He was a lobbyist for Enron and a participant in the secret energy policy talks with Cheney that made sure the world was kept safe for big oil. This is the second … Read more
We’ll teach those Japanese not to attack us. Let’s invade Kamchatka. Bob Herbert in the NY Times weighs in today with a good idea, one that I advocated obliquely just yesterday: that we reinstitute the draft. After all, if this war is really in the national interest, we should all have to fight it, no? … Read more
Would you give up your Starbucks latte to buy body armor? I was walking in downtown Minneapolis today and noticed some posters from World War I in the window of a bookshop. One was made up of an illustration of a knife cutting a loaf of bread and the caption was “Save a loaf a … Read more
The secret word is “laundering” Lots of whoopin’ and hollerin’ in Texas yesterday as a judge dismissed one of the three charges against Tom DeLay. The one dismissed was for conspiracy to violate election rules. Two charges related to money laundering were left standing. Here’s what happened, in case you haven’t been paying attention. DeLay … Read more
I’m here to tell you I’m proud to be valedictorian of the Tom Delay School of Congressional Ethics. Why put too fine a point on it? The guy who can match up Patty Wetterling with Osama Bin Laden in campaign ads probably deserves much worse than being called a slimeball. In fact, if you meet … Read more
It says here that everything is fine and dandy Not content to spread their bullshit just to Americans, the Bushies now are planting stories in the Iraqi press about how well it’s going over there. Unfortunately for the administration, the LA Times isn’t for sale…at least not for the pittance the military was paying to … Read more