A shameless pitch for Drinking Liberally on February 6th

February 3, 2020

Fourteen years of bullshit -the eBook

by Steve Timmer

The incomplete evolution of Lee Schafer

February 1, 2020

Strolling down PolyMet Avenue with Lee

by Steve Timmer

Kurt Daudt sets a “dog-whistle racist” tone for 2020

January 27, 2020

“Dog-whistle racism” is a weird phrase, when you think about it. I mean, the whole point of a dog whistle is that humans aren’t affected by it, right? But we all in fact know what political dog-whistle racism really entails, and that’s what matters. For example: “People want to be able to visit a Twins […]

by Dan Burns

Let’s test that proposition, Senator Gazelka

January 20, 2020

Begrudging an urban single mom $120 a month in food stamps

by Steve Timmer

I see you’re a Democrat, a reprise (with an addendum)

January 17, 2020

Lotsa luck, my friends

by Steve Timmer

Guys, keep your grubby mitts out of Minnesota’s schools

January 16, 2020

First of all, the fact that Alan Page was a very great football player doesn’t give him standing on this. The proposed amendment would remove the requirement for a “uniform” system of public education from the state constitution. This strategy paves the way for taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, which may discriminate against certain students. […]

by Dan Burns

“Eliminate” means kill, Mark and Tina

January 9, 2020

From the January 7th edition of the Star Tribune, a letter to the editor: In the wake of Trump’s altogether proper decision to send the world’s foremost terrorist to the hell he deserved, many on the left are issuing the all-too-typical challenges that our president is marching the nation closer to war. Nonsense. This president […]

by Steve Timmer

MN-08: Rep. Stauber’s strange justification for opposing better gun laws

January 7, 2020

As a voter in MN-08, I must acknowledge that Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN), who is in his first term, could be a lot worse. At least he doesn’t indulge in the public displays of raving idiocy one sees with the likes of Reps. Tom Emmer (MN-06) and Jim Hagedorn (MN-01). He’s even been known to […]

by Dan Burns

How we got to where we’re at with the federal judiciary

December 17, 2019

I saw this: Moscow Mitch McConnell didn’t just casually toss the Constitution into the trash on Sean Hannity’s show Thursday when he promised Donald Trump would be in control of his own impeachment hearing. He gloated over his wanton destruction of federal judiciary, laughing at Hannity for saying that he was shocked President Obama left […]

by Dan Burns

On the court rejecting a mining company permit

December 10, 2019

Now with a 12/11 update . . .

by Steve Timmer

PolyMet permitting timeline

December 6, 2019

A companion to the eBook: Fourteen Years of Bullshit

by Steve Timmer

Is Big Ag really trying to push traditional farmers under?

December 5, 2019

First, let’s assess the situation as it is now. – Most farms in the U.S. are still, technically anyway, traditional, family farms. Though the farmers’ kids, and even grandkids, are very often far from kids, age-wise, any longer. Economically, though, what those farmers do is determined by Big Ag and Big Ag-friendly (to say the […]

by Dan Burns