Sigmund Spot’s newest patient (reprise) II

December 19, 2012

Tom Hackbarth sees Sigmund Spot about his issues

Sigmund Spot’s newest patient (reprise)

December 18, 2012

Tom Hackbarth sees Sigmund about his issues

“Guns Don’t Kill People”: Means Matter Revisited

December 17, 2012

In one way, they’re right:  guns alone don’t kill people. Our fantasies about guns kill people. Americans love the way guns make them feel:  powerful, secure, and in control. We have transferred these qualities onto our totem object, the gun. If we own a gun, the thinking goes, we can fend off criminals who might […]

Killing James Dean

December 17, 2012

the battle against gun violence will turn on marketing, not laws

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls

December 16, 2012

It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola

A Spotty ™ winner on gun control

December 15, 2012

Donald Bronsky’s brilliant and bitter letter to the editor in Saturday’s Strib wins a Spotty™. It is vital to remember that now is not the time to be discussing anything resembling tighter gun-control legislation. It is far too early, and emotions are running too deeply, to discuss anything that would even begin to limit the number of […]

Because shoulder-fired rockets don’t shoot down airplanes (reprise)

December 15, 2012

People do!

Dave Senjem: “We need some cement around our heels”

December 13, 2012

Dave and Luca sleep with the fishes

What if you created a half a billion in debt

December 9, 2012

But nobody owed it?

Cub Foods at 2010 Pride

Decline: SUPERVALU CEOs continue to cash in while the company underperforms

December 6, 2012

A Minnesota retail giant that employs over 150,000 people nationwide is floundering.  Constant changes in leadership.  Cuts that hurt the rank-and-file while the executives skate by.  A future very much in doubt. No, not that one. I’m talking about Supervalu.  Most people don’t realize just how large a company Supervalu is.  With $36 billion in […]

Holding Hands

Politics is the art of the possible

December 5, 2012

Easily, one of the most contentious and public pieces of legislation in the 2013 session of the Minnesota legislature will be a proposal to repeal a portion of Minn. Stat. sec. 517.03 – specifically, the language that precludes marriage recognition from same-sex couples. Complicating matters is the odious Defense of Marriage Act, and its current […]

rich neumeister

How to become a citizen lobbyist

December 3, 2012

Advice from people who do this important work