Jim the Naif – with an update

September 12, 2022

Jim Schultz is an inexperienced private interest lawyer

A Noogie for Dougie (and Jimmy Schultz)

August 16, 2022

That’s AG candidate Jimmy Schultz

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Enbridge’s mega-con

January 3, 2022

Well, now. As Republican state officials insist that Canadian oil pipelines are necessary to lower energy costs for American consumers, the fossil fuel giant operating those pipelines is suddenly citing the climate crisis its products are creating as a rationale for raising those prices higher, according to new documents reviewed by the Daily Poster… Last […]

New religion seeks to lure old and infirm to their deaths

August 15, 2020

Implementing the tenets of the Prophet Darwin

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Muslim-bashers aren’t getting it done, in Minnesota politics – Part 2

August 13, 2020

(Part 1 here.) As noted in Part 1, the haters failed to keep Keith Ellison out of the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, in 2018. Against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), they tried a different approach, this time. There wasn’t the same kind of out-loud bigotry. Instead, they tried a “less divisive,” even supposedly “progressive,” campaign. And […]

The Ballad of Bobby Kroll

June 3, 2020

Let’s hope when this spasm of violence and mendacity is past, a better day will emerge

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Muslim-bashers aren’t getting it done, in Minnesota politics

May 25, 2020

The “conservadems” are at it again

Adolescent oppositional disorder at the Capitol

March 21, 2020

Let the ankle biting begin!

Keep up the good work, people

October 6, 2019

I shudder to think where we’d be without you

Minnesota’s investment follies

August 2, 2019

Word comes via the Star Tribune that Minnesota’s investment board has invested in Glencore, Antofagasta, and Enbridge. Swell. In addition to the teensy conflict of interest it presents (all are supplicants to Minnesota agencies), this makes some members of the environmental community, well, gag, on a general level. Some people are asking for divestiture. As […]

PolyMet scores a hat trick!

June 26, 2019

O, what a tangled web we weave . . .

Writer of LTE condemning Doug Wardlow wins a Spotty ™

October 13, 2018

The letter of the day in the print edition of the Strib for Saturday, October 13th wins a Spotty™. Republican Doug Wardlow’s comments at a recent Jason Lewis fundraiser that if he is elected attorney general he would fire “42 Democratic attorneys right off the bat and get Republican attorneys in there” (StarTribune.com, Oct. 12) is proof-positive […]