Deconstructing Parente

April 11, 2026

There were in recent days two competing views on the proposed merger of California’s Sutter Health and Minnesota’s Allina Health. An op-ed against the merger was published in the Minnesota Reformer, authored by Thomas Lane, of Excelsior, Minnesota, a health economics, policy and management master’s student at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. One in […]

AI regulation is afoot at the MN lege

April 9, 2026

What’s interesting is who’s behind it

Donald Trump peering out from hand-shaded eyes

There is a knave whose name is Donald

March 26, 2026

There’s many a lass whose bottom he’s fondled

Is Angie Craig really changing her political ways?

March 8, 2026

I have my doubts

“Bibi” and the Saudis manipulated Trump into war

March 5, 2026

It didn’t take much

Suffer the little children

February 25, 2026

Seriously, let them suffer

Year-round E15 is the dumbest idea

February 21, 2026

For everyone except Big Ag, anyway

The under the radar assault on the VA

February 16, 2026

The usual for Trumpism, and for corporate media

No Spotty ™ for Lisa

February 9, 2026

Don’t lionize the fraud fabulists

MN-06: Emmer takes up the “paid agitator” swill

February 6, 2026

It was a sure thing that he would do so

Echoes of the 1st Minnesota Volunteers

January 31, 2026

A lot of volunteers willing to give their last full measure of devotion

One way we absolutely know AI is BS

January 30, 2026

One way among many