Tom Friedman, much revered St. Louis Park multiple Pulitzer winner has a pretty provocative column today in the NY Times entitled “If It’s a Muslim Problem, It Needs a Muslim Solution.” He states, “The Muslim village has been derelict in condemning the madness of jihadist attacks. When Salman Rushdie wrote a controversial novel involving the … Read more
The War on Terror came home to roost again this morning, and reminded us that there is a price to be paid–and that the ones paying it are innocent civilians and volunteer soldiers from the countries Bush dragged with us into Iraq. But, it would be stupid to say this is Bush’s and Blair’s fault. … Read more
Sometimes things get so crazy around here on a day-to-day basis–y’ know, circulation scandals, declining stock prices, lapdog journalists going to jail for their petty, power-crazed sources–that we forget we’ve seen it all before. (Just for the record: Even lapdog journalists protecting God-complex sources shouldn’t have to forfeit their shoe laces–especially for articles they never … Read more
I’m opening the phone lines for suggestions, but I’ll start off with a sample from one of rock’s most literate songwriters, and a perennial candidate for any list of great underrated musicians. This one always comes in handy for any unhappy relationship or untenable work situation: I’m giving you my notice, and it works this … Read more
–Illustration by James Dankert I’ve decided I’m not going to have squat to say about the Twins until they a) start scoring some stinking runs on a consistent basis; b) get some wins from somebody besides Joe Mays and Kyle Lohse; and c) get close enough to the White Sox that Shannon Stewart could hit … Read more
We take our holidays pretty seriously these days, and that means we don’t look at the newspaper if we can help it. But we’re grateful for certain industrious parties who obsess on the dirty work. So we heard from Rex that Garrison Keillor’s first newspaper column appeared this weekend, and we shuffled across the digital … Read more
I’ve got a strategist named Rove and a press corps I call Rover Judith Miller of the NY Times reports today to a judge for sentencing for her refusal to reveal her source in the Plame matter. There are some who think she should be going to jail for her complete bullshit reporting on the … Read more
—Daniel Corrigan, Eddie Potomac. Publicity photos for Warriors: The Musical. 1984. I don’t know if there’s a way to measure how high you are, but I was super high. I was baked to the point where my brain was running two or three steps behind my tongue. Or maybe it was the other way around. … Read more
I want your property I happened to spend part of my Fourth of July with the former mayor of one of our most affluent suburbs…as if I needed reminding of why I don’t live out there. First I heard of all his suburb’s problems–high taxes, hard to park on main street, white kids into beer … Read more
Last week, we had the opportunity to tour the new Guthrie down our way, and we were impressed. The shell is more or less complete, and now the finishing work begins–a Herculean task that makes shoveling the stalls of Augeas look like a July picnic. Anyway, we were finally convinced of the genius of “the … Read more