Who is Dario Anselmo?

April 30, 2014

See the correction at the foot of the story. Well first of all, he’s apparently a pal of the Dark Sith Lord named Money. He’s also a garden-variety Republican who wants better municipal services, but doesn’t want to pay for them. He used to own the Fine Line Music Cafe; here’s a little from the […]

by Steve Timmer

Well, isn’t that sweet II

April 29, 2014

[H]e laughed again and said, “The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house.” That’s a quote from a recent Truthout article about the Iraq Commission conference in Brussels convened to begin an international investigation of war crimes committed by US and coalition forces in Iraq. The Iraq Commission heard […]

by Steve Timmer

A Spotty for pointing out a feat of legerdemain

April 28, 2014

Alex Hindin’s letter discussing the Strib’s Lee Schafer’s recent feat of legerdemain earns him the coveted Spotty™. Lee Schafer (“They vote Republican in the land of equality,” April 20) achieved what should be impossible — an extended discussion of voting patterns and income equality that ignores the prime determiner of both in America: race. The […]

by Steve Timmer

Well, isn’t that sweet

April 17, 2014

Never you mind the protest, Condi

by Steve Timmer

The Archbishop and the boyz are leery of the Girl Scouts

April 11, 2014

Afraid that girls want to be more than empty vessels for some guy’s seed

by Steve Timmer

Let the little children suffer

April 9, 2014

By bringing them to me

by Steve Timmer

Consider Roger Chamberlain

April 4, 2014

Lightly armed in the battle of wits

by Steve Timmer

Bullshit and bellow: Deformers aim to destroy traditional schools of education

April 4, 2014

It’s pretty clear from a recent broadside published over at the website MinnPost that, like teachers’ unions, the education deformers also want to destroy Minnesota schools of education. Written in classic conservative movement* bullshit and bellow form, the MinnPost story breathlessly reports the pass/fail rate in professional tests for graduated education students for schools across […]

by Rob Levine

In an apparent economy move

March 31, 2014

“I know, let’s get Doug!”

by Steve Timmer
Tom Bakk and Ann Rest

Troll Hard: The Tom Bakk and Ann Rest Story

March 29, 2014

There’s a bit of a kerfuffle going on right now between Senate DFLers and all other DFLers concerning the raising on the minimum wage. Maybe you’ve heard about this? If not, I’ll recap the story, broad brush stroke style. Last year the minimum wage did not get increased despite the desires of many people, some […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Keith Downey takes a trip to a place long, long ago, and far, far away

March 25, 2014

The Mail Chimp, indeed

by Steve Timmer

Where were you, Dave?

March 23, 2014

With an update March 24th . . .

by Steve Timmer