We don’t need no stinkin’ plans!

April 13, 2020

Plans are for sissies

And decrease the surplus population

April 11, 2020

Kevin’s Kampf

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A big fat schism in the Minnesota GOP

April 7, 2020

With an update.

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The only shocking thing about the Trump Crash is that it took this long

April 1, 2020

About the last thing that I claim to be is any kind of economics guru. When I read about and think about the topic, these days, which I don’t do much of, it’s behavioral economics. So the only thing I have to say about what will happen with the economy going forward is that anyone […]

Republicans stand ready

March 26, 2020

Let’s get out there and bite some ankles!

Adolescent oppositional disorder at the Capitol

March 21, 2020

Let the ankle biting begin!

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Bad court ruling, by Trump flunky, puts the BWCA at further risk

March 19, 2020

What a load of crap. A federal district court judge has ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s decision to reinstate federal mineral leases that could eventually lead to a sulfide-based copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The decision, issued Monday, was not a surprise to opponents of the mine, who had expected […]

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DFLers in MN House look to help the homeless

March 12, 2020

Think it will get far in the GOP Senate?

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What should Sen. Klobuchar do now?

March 2, 2020

What with the way news gets around on the internet, you’ve probably seen that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) ended – sorry, “suspended” – her presidential campaign, today. I’m not going to speculate as to what pressures may or may not have been brought to bear on her (or, for that matter, on The Smiler). Like […]

On attempts to sell clean water down the river

February 25, 2020

We don’t need no stinkin’ sulfide mine

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China won the trade war, and farmers will keep hurting

February 13, 2020

They should probably hold off on buying those bigger tractors. According to Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, China will buy at least $40 billion of U.S. agricultural goods in each of the next two years. It will endeavor to buy another $5 billion each year…Ambassador Lighthizer said the specific sub-sector commitments, such as oilseeds […]

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“Campaign Against Killer Robots” is dead serious

February 7, 2020

I read about this in this month’s Scientific American. That’s paywalled. The gist, via a few quotes from the article: – “Once launched, an AWS finds, tracks, selects and attacks targets with violent force, all without human supervision.” (AWS stands for “fully autonomous weapons system.”) – “Since the mid-2000s, when the U.S. Department of Defense […]