Stamping out pockets of resistance

June 27, 2015

Please see the recent update 10/4. From the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, the gay marriage decision: The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom […]

Marriage – 1895, when wives were still chattel

June 26, 2015

Musings on the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage

Scalia the Papist isn’t happy

June 25, 2015

Boat anchor to the past, Justice Scalia

What’s in a name?

June 25, 2015

When Lake Calhoun was being renamed

America’s Midden Class – No Malapropism

June 22, 2015

America’s middle class properly named the midden class.

Aaron Brown is at the end of his rope

June 20, 2015

Aaron Brown, the Range Raconteur, has been required reading for anybody who is interested in an insider’s view of the Iron Range, one that differs from the fried tripe you get from, say, Bill Hanna. Reading Aaron’s reactions to the increasingly grisly political news emanating from the Iron Range has been especially interesting. His discomfort […]

Sex, Lies and Leadership

June 19, 2015

What we learned from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program and sex abuse cover-up in the Catholic Church

Right Wing thinking explained with Art

June 18, 2015

The mobius thinking of the right wing in pictures

Governance in the Dismal Swamp

June 17, 2015

In recent months, controversy has swirled around the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (the “IRRRB”) and the people who populate and control it: Iron Range legislators. There was another story by investigative reporter Jennifer Bjorhus in the Star Tribune on Sunday, June 14th – another eyebrow raiser – involving IRRRB loans to a Mountain […]

Whatever happened to the liberal Democrats?

June 13, 2015

The first LeftMN commentary by Professor David Schultz

The Separation of Powers

June 10, 2015

Is on everyone’s lips

Fahrenheit 451 revisited

June 6, 2015

Someone sent me this video and asked my reaction. It’s a promotional video made by Corning that purports to show what our future will be like. If our future is a complete dystopian nightmare, that is. Even the title is chilling to me. The video takes us through a day, dawn to dusk, of a prototypical […]