The mayor of the City of Saint Paul is trying to kill me. I suppose it has to do with my having expressed unflattering opinions about him. But hey, I can\’t help it, I just channel the truth, I don\’t invent it.
If I did, I wouldn\’t have invented this outcome to the vote on [...]
Update; Here\’s Jeff Jarvis\’ reaction to seeing the film.
There\’s oh-so-much hype about Michael Moore\’s new film, Fahrenheit 911 (whew, tough spell!), which comes out this Friday. And in nearly every mention I\’ve seen about this movie, one presumably damning statistic about George Bush is repeated: he spent 42% of his first eight months in office [...]
Not much today, except this – looks like the Mayor of Saint Paul is opposed to the smoking ban, which means that when he runs for re-election, I will not vote for him again.
I\’ve made my position clear on this issue – on this site and in e-mails to Mr. Kelly – but he appears [...]
More evidence of my ever-expanding sphere of influence: a survey reports that New York City experienes one of the steepest declines in adult smoking ever measured; 11% drop in one year. And it coincided with the introductiong of huge tobacco taxes and a smoking ban.
The surveys, to be released today, show that after holding steady [...]
Well, the awesome political influence I wield through this blog has finally been proven: just days after I wrote a piece here in support of Dave Thune\’s proposed Saint Paul smoking ban, Minneapolis has introduced a proposal of its own.
And it appears politicians aren\’t the only ones reading my blog; Star Tribune readers, no doubt [...]
Dave Thune, you rascal. What a lucky name; it lends itself to all kinds of punnery. And I don\’t even know who you are, aside from a fairly popular lawn sign.
But what I know of you is enough; you\’ve got my vote.
That\’s right, friends, next chance I get (and I hope it comes thuner than [...]
My neighborhood is expensive. I can’t afford to live here, but I do.
How I do it is my own business. Do I traffic illegal arms? Maybe. Do I create custom airbrushed murals for hot-air balloons? You just don\’t know, do you?
But the point is, here I am, a lowly college student, an aspiring [...]
A huge archive of editorial cartoons by Dr. Seuss, organized by category. This one\’s from November 3, 1941, and is filed in the category \”Inactivity\”.
I always like to find other Minnesota bloggers, and Frozen North is a new discovery for me (oddly enough, via Andrew Sullivan).
Check out his post on the two Americas meme.
Also the SSoGMwMFaB is an organization to which I think I should belong. Except I\’m not sure I qualify as a grown man.
Don\’t miss Christopher Hitchens\’s flogging of Mel Gibson\’s \”The Passion of the Christ.\”
I haven\’t seen it yet (I\’m waiting for my $8.50 lottery ticket to win), but I think I will, eventually. About Hitchens\’s critique: one thing I always like about his writing is his unfearing willingness to opine bluntly on almost any subject. It [...]