Daughter Number Three

With yesterday's Microsoft outage, and the FAA's grounding of flights across the U.S. today, I reminded myself of a verbal nicety I ...

Here's a map of Minnesota, showing each county as if it were an oddly shaped pie chart of the red/blue vote break-down per county: (I sa...

You know that thing Oprah used to do, which became a recurring bit: "You get a car, and you get a car, and you get a car"? We'...

I missed this Steve Sack cartoon when it first went up on MinnPost, but saw it shared by The Weekly Sift yesterday: A great example of a pi...

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Red Dye No. 3, but a short article in the most recent Skeptical Inquirer by McGill Universit...

I knew that one of the reasons women died historically, and continue to die, after childbirth was because of uterine  hemorrhage , but I nev...

There was a March for Democracy to the Minnesota State Capitol today. It was scheduled well before the midterm election, with the intent to ...

I don't do Instagram and so can't access the original post , but here's kottke.org's description of this composite photo by...

A number of people have pointed out that with Tuesday's election results, there are almost enough Democratic state trifectas to enact Na...

Well, I didn't know if this would happen, but I feel the need to post some BlueSky election schadenfreude today. After all, I did spend ...

I'm writing early today before anything is known about election results.  Last week I attended Co-op Fest, where many co-ops and credit ...

As an oasis of normality, I look to the Twin Cities Book Festival next Saturday at Union Depot in downtown Saint Paul. I was reminded of th...