elephant ears

Elephant ears at the county fair

July 24, 2012

The family has been working at the county fair to bring in extra money: husband fellaslipper parking vehicles, and son dudeslipper directing them. During a momentary lull in traffic the subject of politics came up. One of the other guys parking cars said he supported Sarah Palin. Fellaslipper asked, “You’re a working guy around my […]

North Shore River

Sulfide mining interest comes to the north shore

July 24, 2012

Auction includes new areas of exploration

Back for a return engagement!

July 24, 2012

The opera buffa L’amante (The Paramour)

student loan backpack

Student loan default rife at Minnesota for-profit colleges

July 24, 2012

50 for-profit programs with more than 50% default

Paul Thissen

The rest of that SurveyUSA poll

July 24, 2012

Obama loses ground, A-Klo still crushes and Paul Thissen looks like the next Speaker of the House

AR-15

Means matter

July 23, 2012

All weapons are not created equal

Verbal bullying

Dither, dither and more dither

July 23, 2012

Deadline? What Deadline?

Dont Panic

Rule Number One of Hitchhiking and Poll Watching, Don’t Panic

July 23, 2012

I woke up Saturday morning only to immediately be confronted by the gnashing of garments and rending of teeth over the seemingly impossible results of the new SurveyUSA (KSTP) poll on the hatin’ on marriage amendment. There must be something wrong with the poll right? I mean, the last two polls, one by PPP and […]

LeftMN Radio Hour

LeftMN Radio Hour 7-22

July 22, 2012

Aaron Brown of MinnesotaBrown.com, gives us his impressions of the debate between Tarryl Clark, Rick Nolan and Jeff Anderson

Minnesota Nice?

July 22, 2012

Well, sometimes

Michele Bachmann preaches

The Weekly Wrap 7-22

July 22, 2012

Michele does what Michele does, haters do what haters do and Tony Sutton does what Tony Sutton does

Pile of Cash

Fun with Graphs of Money

July 18, 2012

Some pie charts and bar graphs to help visualize the money