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A life-long Cardinals fan after 50+ years in St. Louis, I came to Minneapolis from Colorado, where the Rockies are never "average." They're either inspiring or terrible, with, alas, more of the latter than the former in recent years. Todd Helton, bless his agent and CPA, has been paid $150 million over the years, and has discovered that he is not immune to the physical foibles of increasing age.
Probably because of my decades in St. Louis, I expect, for my discretionary dollar, a...
…when one of the few "bright spots" for your political party is Scott Walker, and how frightening for everyone else.
I'm not by any means a DFL stalwart, nor a long-time Minnesota resident. If this list is the best the Minnesota GOP can do, I'll be voting for some other party's candidate, especially given the party's alleged performance in 2010-2012, and what I've read about former Governor Pawlenty's similarly alleged performance while in office before I arrived. The job he took after leaving office says a lot about Mr. Pawlenty's ethics and view of representative government. Offhand, I have to endorse...
“…Arizona? Nevada? How much are they paying for the water?”
The answer: Not nearly enough, and if current trends continue, in a decade or two it won't matter, because there won't be water to grow corn at any price.
You may need to add Idaho to the list, as well. Before the era of frantic reservoir construction began in the early 20th century, Colorado's South Platte River (Denver's primary source of water) used to DRY UP every summer. Farmers in northeast Colorado already are...
…to Neal Rovick's first sentence, and to Eric's jaundiced view of "celebrity as potential candidate." Celebrity shouldn't automatically rule someone out as a candidate, but it should also not automatically make someone a figure to be taken seriously in a political context.
Amen to Bill Kellett.
“…‘You’re a beleaguered minority; let us protect you from the evil GOP — oh, and here’s your absentee ballot.’” is not only classic GOP, it’s been pretty much the mantra of the right wing for at least a decade. Substitute “Democrat” for “GOP,” and insert “corporate” in place of “absentee,” and the statement works just as well for the other side.
is that the 6th District could — and has done, and is now doing — much worse than Jim Graves as a Congressional representative. Graves might run as a reformer, he might run as a standard-issue DFL'er, he might run as a centrist, or even veer a little bit to the right to accommodate the voters in the district. Whatever he does, I don't see how it could be worse for the 6th District, or more embarrassing, than Mrs. Bachmann's list of alleged accomplishments.
1. As well as “e-bingo” and “e-bake sales,” think of the more obvious solution: e-taxes. All Minnesotans will end up paying for the new football emporium to some degree, whether they like football or not, whether they ever attend a game or not.
2. It's not possible to overemphasize Steven Brill's "Time" magazine piece on the costs of medical care.
3. Mr. Hammond's blog is hysterical, in several senses of the word. I'd sure hate to annoy the pastor of a big fundamentalist church...
As long as we’re reopening old wounds, quite a few of us were never stadium “buyers” in the first place, and aren’t at all pleased with the prospect of the state (meaning us) picking up a substantial portion of the tab for a new Vikings stadium. I’m not a football fan, and wouldn’t cross the street to watch the Vikings play in the Super Bowl for free, so my own personal remorse comes from being part of a taxpaying public asked to pick up a sizable portion of the tab for a professional sports...
A university — especially a taxpayer-funded university — is not, and cannot be allowed to be, about sports. Sports are not important. N. O. T. Important. Sports are children's games. A community or region or state that pays its university coaches more than its university professors of academic subjects deserves to die an agonizing death. Its priorities are almost exactly the reverse of what they ought to be. No one should be going to a university in order to play basketball, or football, or...