August 2011
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“As The Daily Beast put it: “The new top tier of Bachmann, Perry, and Romney —...”
– Much like Roger Simon, I’M “far from a Libertarian… But after Ames, it was as if Paul had been sentenced to the Phantom Zone.”
Simon has a great piece, which points out that Ron Paul—another candidate with some legit catch phrases but underlying crazy views—does...
“(The Christianist Movement) now appears to be complete. When I wrote “The...”
– Sullivan
AND BROOKS CONTINUES TO BE A SYNDICATED COLUMNIST WITH HUGE REACH AND NO ACCOUNTABILITY
Quick Note on Rioting in Minnesota
If you have to drive somewhere and find parking—which is basically all of Minneapolis/St. Paul outside of your own walking/biking limits—it’s going to be pretty hard to start throwing rocks through windows and looting without impacting your neighborhood, and I don’t know that we have the urban density for that.
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What is Political Accountability?
There’s a difference between political accountability and legal accountability; the latter is based off of the letters and intent of the law, but the former is much more difficult to in many cases identify or define or enact.
This is a very big question: What is political accountability?
While it could be as easy as lost state Senate seats in the Wisconsin recall, the question of...
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““Damn your metal signage, W.W”
Could this be the message of the...”
– ~Star Tribune
New theory: Wil Wheaton store the letters from the 35W Bridge Memorial. ARREST HIM!
“Historical novelist Gore Vidal, commenting in 2001 on the U.S. Supreme Court’s...”
– Mr. Braschler is a healer and one-time guest of Coast To Coast AM
source: StarTribune letter to the editor 8.6.11
(via chuckt)
UGH OMG SUPER DEPRESSING.
metal album covers featuring sharks →
““He said the first time he took Swiss Kriss, he said, ‘it sounded...”
– From one of the most interesting things I’ve read in a long time, a description of Louis Armstrong’s eating—and subsequent dieting—habits
