Tom Bartel The Star Tribune finally managed to get a story in about Minneapolis School Board member-elect Chris Stewart’s “Tammy Lee and Everyone Who Supports Her Hate Black People” web site. They couldn’t get the story in before the election for some reason, probably because, as they said, Stewart didn’t return their call until after the election. … Read more
The founders planned for it to work out this way: one party controls the executive; the other party controls the legislature. Except for the fact that the chief executive is George Bush, things could be a lot worse. God knows they have been for the past 6 years. If there is one thing that’s been … Read more
And those of you who depend on the newspapers or the TV for your news did, Minneapolis School Board Candidate Chris Stewart wrote and posted this “spoof” of Tammy Lee’s website front page on his blog, americanhotsausage.com. It’s since been removed and the blog has been passworded so you can’t see any of his previous … Read more
There are many answers to that, some of which I’ve already articulated, but I felt the need to do some more research. So I looked up the bills that Ellison introduced in the last session of the Minnesota Legislature. Many of them are innocuous. Most are well meaning. But the two that got me were … Read more
“It’s worth being the Anti-Christ if I get to wear this great hat.” In a hilarious bout of turn around is fair play, it seems that some Christians (if you count Roman Catholics as Christians–some don’t, you know) are upset that Michele Bachmann’s sect of the Lutheran Church regards the Pope as the Anti-Christ. Here … Read more
It seems as though John Kerry sure isn’t taking the high road any more when attacked by the Republicans. In a NY Times story just posted in the last half hour, Kerry has some choice words for Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh and the rest. If he’d talked like this two years ago, who knows what would … Read more
My neighborhood is solidly Democrat. As I walked through it one autumn day two years ago, I made a point of counting lawn signs. On one half-hour walk, I saw eighteen Kerry signs and only one for Bush. I made virtually the same walk the other day, for the same purpose, but with a different … Read more
I don’t think I’ve been being lazy, but maybe I have when it comes to this blogging stuff. Nothing on the political scene is particularly interesting, except for Michele Bachmann talking directly to God, and Patty Wetterling accusing Bachmann of wanting to raise taxes. Both blasphemies, of course. You can’t buy entertainment like that. Speaking … Read more
The rest of the world is at war Everything’s ok in America as long as we have our celebrity journalism Newsweek has a great story on how we are now losing not only in Iraq, but in Afganistan, too. It’s the cover story on their international edition. Here in America, though, we’re more interested in … Read more
The ancient Romans had an annual religious celebration called the Terminalia. It consisted of neighboring landowners coming together at the marker that divided their land to give thanks to Terminus, the god of boundaries. At the end of the Roman year, an altar was built, a sacrifice of a lamb or suckling pig was made, … Read more