Bloomington Ten exonerated!

January 18, 2015

On charges of “crimes against shopping”

by Steve Timmer

Miscellany 1-17-15

January 17, 2015

It frequently happens that an interesting item will come along that I would like to comment on or provide a link to, but it isn’t material for a whole story. That’s where the idea of Miscellany was born. It won’t be an aggregator, exactly, and I won’t do it with any predictable regularity. Each issue […]

by Steve Timmer

Are we marching to anywhere?

January 13, 2015

[See the updates below] Since this is a mostly-Minnesota website, and since I am a little conflicted about the meaning of the whole thing myself, I hadn’t planned to write about the massacre in Paris (because that it was it was) and the follow-up shooting at a kosher market that took additional lives (that was also […]

by Steve Timmer

The car salesman from Crown gets his feelings hurt

January 9, 2015

Hey Kurt, where the hell is my road?

by Steve Timmer

Jon Tevlin headlines Drinking Liberally!

January 9, 2015

On Thursday evening, January 15th, Star Tribune columnist Jon Tevlin will be our guest at Drinking Liberally at the 331 Club in Minneapolis. As readers of the Strib know, Jon writes provocative and always entertaining columns about interesting characters and events in Minnesota. And here’s your chance to hear him talk a little more about […]

by Steve Timmer

Is Bloomington a company town?

January 6, 2015

Or do #BlackLivesMatter?

by Steve Timmer

The car salesman from Crown

December 30, 2014

You want the undercoating, right?

by Steve Timmer

They shall serve as examples for all to see

December 26, 2014

The words of Bloomington city attorney Sandra Johnson still ring in my ears: “It’s important to make an example out of these organizers so that this never happens again,” Johnson said. “It was a powder keg waiting for the match.” If you go to the Bloomington website, you will see a note that the police […]

by Steve Timmer

Inspector Javert

December 24, 2014

In the last story about the MOA Black Lives Matter rally on the 20th, I suggested that Bloomington city attorney Sandra Johnson was the protagonist in a Greek tragedy, doomed by circumstances, but obsessed to carry on in the face of a fate that was obvious to everyone but her. That metaphor was completely wrong. She isn’t a tragic […]

by Steve Timmer

Barbarians breach the gate at the MOA

December 23, 2014

We must have revenge!

by Steve Timmer

Hit ’em where it hurts

December 21, 2014

It is reported in the Strib that the DFL thinks an ethics complaint ought to be filed in the Minnesota Senate against Julianne Ortman because of the offers of money by her campaign manager — one of which was accepted — to two other candidates, also seeking the endorsement for the U.S. Senate at the Republican […]

by Steve Timmer

Scott Johnson’s book report

December 17, 2014

I was naturally excited to learn that Scott Johnson had also read Keith Ellison’s recent and charming memoir, My Country ‘Tis of Thee. Since the New York Review of Books, and even The Atlantic, rejected Scott’s review, he had to turn to his pal Doug Tice at the Strib to get it published. Which is, naturally, as […]

by Steve Timmer