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Jim Leinfelder

Minneapolis, MN
Commenter for
4 years 28 weeks

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Posted on 02/15/11 at 12:12 pm in response to Picking science that fits politics: Rep. Mike Beard on climate change

Another thing Rep. Beard tries to sound like but is not--a theologian.

Posted on 06/14/10 at 04:42 pm in response to 'Nice Ride' bike sharing program gets rolling today in Minneapolis

If you use a cash card, Nice Bike takes $250 from your checking account and keeps it for eight days. That's WAY too big an investment for a 20-minute ride, for which they still charged me $5.39. Sounded like a great program. I'll never touch 'em again.

Posted on 05/28/10 at 10:27 am in response to Can Democrats counter GOP's popular bumper-sticker message: 'Honk if you love Freedom'?

I like: "Honk, if you can actually sum up your worldview on a bumper sticker."

Posted on 12/09/09 at 04:13 pm in response to A new report has parts of coastal Australia falling into the ocean

Am I correctly recalling that Australia is the world's leading exporter of coal?

Posted on 09/01/09 at 10:56 pm in response to State Fair scenes: Al and Audrey, political crop art and a 90th-birthday celebration

Joe, I took the parrot and monkey to be Fred Kahlo allusions. Her use of them as biographical iconography in her self portraits and their relation to those two first ladies eludes me, however.

Posted on 07/30/09 at 05:34 pm in response to Minnesota's newest health scare: Beware the deadly tick

I'd say you're in trouble with teenage girls.

Posted on 07/07/09 at 06:31 pm in response to Cincinnati columnist spanked for using fake Franken 'baby' photo

I guess this serves as confirmation of the reports we read about people who take The Colbert Report at face value, not realizing it is a parody with sensibilities like their own as its object?

What, one wonders, does this poster thinks is "real" about a photo of Al Franken playing the satirical character, Stuart Smalley on SNL? Is this just a further example of a sensibility unable to apprehend that this, too, is parody, that Franken was playing a character of his own invention that...

Posted on 07/07/09 at 11:02 am in response to Ask readers for help, and they'll help you right back

Paging Skip Loescher, Action News, Skip Loescher...

Posted on 07/02/09 at 11:09 am in response to Daily Glean: Post-Senate race, gubernatorial guessing game takes the spotlight

Lambert asks: Is "aggressively Libertarian" a euphemism? And if so, for what, really?

I believe you now have your spittle-flecked answer.

Posted on 06/30/09 at 06:56 pm in response to Can heavy-duty cycling affect male fertility?

In related news:

Testicular Cancer Survivor and World's Greatest Cyclist Lance Armstrong's Girlfriend Is Pregnant

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/24/armstrongs-tour-de-for...