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Mick garry

sioux falls, SD
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3 years 24 weeks

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Posted on 02/23/11 at 11:35 am in response to Does a 'Bellagio or Wynn experience' await on Block E?

I live in South Dakota and I can tell you the transplanted millionaires from Edina and Wayzata are thicker than rats around the grain bin trough already. We've set up special internment camps to give them more time to decide which country club to join and where to buy their Cadillacs.

Posted on 12/13/10 at 06:20 pm in response to Say good-bye to the 50-year-plus guys: WCCO's Boone, Star Tribune's Youngblood

I remember Youngblood as sort of a mix between Hal Holbrook and Morton Downey Jr. at St. Thomas. As a sophomore struggling with the craft of hammering out a sound news story, I would have envied those Tribune writers whose shortcomings elicited a mere "Dad-blamed". Can't remember anyone other than my father and a few of my coaches who ever tuned me up like he did. On the days it wasn't my particular ass getting kicked, though, it was great stuff. Decades later, I still value the time spent...

Posted on 12/02/10 at 10:30 am in response to Aging inmates, racial disproportionality, and other facts about Minnesota prisons

Can you put together a pie chart that indicates how many of the prisoners are guilty?

Posted on 07/26/10 at 03:44 pm in response to The recurring political question: Economics or politics?

Changing the subject for a second here...If I'm interpreting David Kahn correctly, Michael Beasley's problem was not that he was smoking marijuana, it was that he was smoking too much marijuana. Perhaps in the coming days Kahn can give us some insight on the appropriate amount of pot a much more mature Mr. Beasley should be smoking while attempting to re-vitalize his NBA career.

Posted on 01/26/10 at 12:20 pm in response to A bylineless Tuesday at the Star Tribune

Very clever in context with the cobbler's leprechauns/copy editor metaphor: "...we never see or hear of them, but, every morning, there work is done..."

Posted on 12/02/09 at 01:54 pm in response to Diagnosing Jane: What really killed the author of 'Pride and Prejudice'?

"But if otherwise, if the regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill-success might perhaps authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment."

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