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Curt Carlson

Edina, MN
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2 years 3 weeks

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Posted on 07/23/12 at 08:17 pm in response to After Muslim Brotherhood controversy, Democrats see an opening against Bachmann

“I didn’t much care for Joseph McCarthy’s ends, but I always admired his methods.” That should tell us all we need to know about M. Stanton Evans and his take on Joe McCarthy.

Like McCarthy, Bachmann spreads baseless innuendo, attempts to create the need to disprove negatives, and attempts to destroy people by using smear tactics. Despicable, immoral, dishonest, cowardly. Her (and McCarthy's) defenders are likewise.

Posted on 04/27/12 at 11:36 am in response to Some great 'Walking' songs for prime walking season

Laurie Anderson did a couple of somewhat memorable walking ..er, songs: Walking and Falling, and Walk the Dog.

Posted on 04/17/12 at 04:57 pm in response to Buffett Rule dies in Senate, but Minnesota Democrats say issue lives on

Did Kristin Sosanie really say that Minnesotans are "clambering" for tax fairness? They're climbing awkwardly for it? Or are they clamoring (becoing loudly insistent)? Was this a misquote that slipped past the editor, or a malapropism? Youth wants to know!

Posted on 04/06/12 at 04:00 pm in response to The strange phenomenon of stigmata

Wrong - there may be some things that science has YET to explain, but religious baloney is no explanation at all. And did you mean "spontaneous HUMAN combustion"? Because that particular "phenomenon" was created by the stoners at the now-defunct Weekly World News - a worse source of news than Fox.

Posted on 08/16/11 at 04:42 pm in response to Bachmann and her unfounded claim that Iran planned to divide up Iraq

To Bachmann and her ilk, facts are simply not important. They create their own reality, and like all conspiracy theorists, they can't be corrected. It's not surprising or coincidental that they tend to be mired in charismatic evangelic beliefs as well.

Posted on 04/25/11 at 04:38 pm in response to Franken to hold hearing on mobile device privacy; asks Apple, Google execs to testify

There is another analysis of the location-related data collected on iPhones: http://www.willclarke.net/?p=247. The statement being repeated by all media and now politicians that user's location is being tracked may be simply false. At this point we simply don't know either the true nature or the intent of the data - perhaps the inflammatory statements about tracking children and battered women should...