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Hal Davis

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
3 years 12 weeks

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Posted on 05/20/13 at 12:22 pm in response to Peter Waldron, Bachmann whistleblower, describes a campaign and candidate in distress

Other commenters have dealt with Waldron's comments re Bachmann's legal career.

But what caught my eye was this campaign tactic he alleges:

"I began to receive more complaints from pastors in Iowa that the advance team was rude, discourteous, tried to impose their will on the church, tried to change liturgy. I went from recruiting pastors to apologizing to pastors."

A political candidate's advance team "tried to change liturgy"? I'd like to read that part of her...

Posted on 05/01/13 at 03:42 pm in response to Patient fools St. Cloud hospital into believing he's Pink Floyd's David Gilmour

George H.W. Bush made a similar slip in a speech May 6, 1988, at the College of Southern Idaho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfb3DrbIsk

He corrected himself: "Setbacks, we've had setbacks.... I feel like the javelin competitor who won the toss and elected to receive."

Posted on 04/10/13 at 12:19 pm in response to I love New York, but ...

As another New Yorker transplanted to the Twin Cities, I concur with most of these observations.

David Rothenberg once said on WBAI that in New York, if you do one thing, you know you're missing four other things. I've discovered the same cornucopia of possibilities here.

The bookstores are as good as any in Manhattan, and almost as numerous. Maybe the bagels are better there, and possibly the pastrami.

New York City is a 24-hour theme park. But this is a beautiful...

Posted on 03/28/13 at 11:27 am in response to Politico: Republican operatives secretly hope justices legalize same-sex marriage

"IF we should as a nation define marriage, that is a task for the Congress.'

Or the states, if the Supreme say the feds should butt out.

Posted on 02/13/13 at 04:12 pm in response to Tales of a bookstore something: an interview with Jamie and Angela of Moon Palace Books

Pleased that it's in our neighborhood.

Posted on 02/11/13 at 01:42 pm in response to Karma's knife-twist: I have to take freshman comp

I am 2 credits short of a BA, by my calculations. (I have an incomplete in Modern American Drama, but I figure that subject is still developing).

So far, that has not hampered my journalism career.

I'm thinking, Better you than me.

Break a leg.

Posted on 01/29/13 at 01:21 pm in response to Mayor Coleman salutes Kenny Horst; literary events galore

For being so super-literate and on top of things. Your peripateticism may rival Mayor Coleman's.

Posted on 01/28/13 at 03:18 pm in response to How the networks choose some of those TV shows

"To me, it felt like a futile effort — a bunch of people weighing in on something they knew nothing about, selecting among narrowly prescribed options with little time to think or provide additional insight."

Seems like electoral politics to me.

Posted on 01/28/13 at 05:18 pm in response to Credit where credit is due

That his name is Gillette I'm sure is a happy coincidence.

Posted on 01/22/13 at 01:20 pm in response to Return to the U: The Confession

...continuing-education catalogues that arrive in the mail and think, "When I have time."

I'm two credits short of a B.A. (I have an incomplete in Modern American Drama; my teacher went off to write teleplays and screenplays). (The college might differ with my calculations.) That was in 1968.

Since then, I've cobbled together a career in journalism.

We'll see what comes next.

Good luck on campus.