He had this hackneyed phrase in his head –“adrift in a sea of confusion”– that he couldn’t seem to get rid of. Was this really the best he could do in describing how he felt? Yes, at least for the time being, he was forced to admit that it was. He wouldn’t be able to … Read more
I’ve looked through the various Strib stories on the murder in Uptown last week and didn’t find a description of the shooters. Not here. Not here. Not here. Not here. Not here. Here.
In Chicago to open a restaurant, I was invited to dinner with my friend Elizabeth and her parents. Elizabeth’s father, Dr. Pepper (no lie), had just completed a crazy-difficult robotic arm techno-surgery. He hurriedly gave us some scant details before turning to me and asking how the restaurant opening was going. The robotic arm story … Read more
Yet another in a long line of DFL hacks I’ve said it before here, but I am disappointed more each day that Klobuchar isn’t clearly differentiating herself from Mark Kennedy in the Senate race. If you want to look at what she said in a recent Strib article about Iraq and find the clear distinction … Read more
Been busy, but I happened the other day to hear something interesting on MPR’s terrific little show “Future Tense“– a daily dose of reporting on the tech front that is a nice counterpoint to the tweed soliloquy of “the Writers Almanac” (is that even on anymore? Never could figure out how Keillor found the time … Read more
Painting the word “Fuck” in fluorescent pink letters on the shell of a huge turtle would, I’m certain you’d agree, constitute a desecration. Such an act would be an affront to any definition of the sacred you could offer, and would thus be a grievous sin. Releasing in a muddy creek a turtle that had … Read more
But will that thing fit in the trunk? Road Rakes should be, quite literally, driven to fight commonism in all its forms. This includes the commonism of the politically correct (right and left.) I am therefore suggesting a road trip (aka “Freedom Ride”) to fight this menace. Permit me to set some context: Take Sean … Read more
“Nobody has ever lost basketball games in more novel settings than Klotz. He’s lost in a leper colony, on an aircraft carrier, in a bullring, a prison, the deep end of a swimming pool. He’s lost before kings and queens and four popes. He’s lost in 50 states and 117 countries. He hasn’t lost in … Read more
The trouble with the BMW 330i is that its been on top so long it’s always in danger of losing its mojo. When a car is this popular it runs the risk of appealing to flighty “high fliers” and flight attendants a little too much. At the risk of sounding last century, it is constantly … Read more
Molly, once a month with you is not enough I came across an internal memo from the Star Tribune today. It may show up in their Reader’s Rep column…or it may not. A reader of the Strib went to the trouble of counting the syndicated columnists that have run on the Strib’s Op-Ed page the … Read more