Daughter Number Three

One name: Russell Vought.  He wants to put himself (or people he controls) in charge of deciding how all the U.S. government's grant mon...

Three things I saw today about policing. Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data (from Reuters): U.S. police spend...

I've mentioned the War on Cars podcast just a few times since I started listening to it in 2024 ( here and here ). Two of its recent e...

I'm overwhelmed by today's bad news ( multi-decade sentences to the Prairieland defendants in Texas and multiple 6–3 SCOTUS decisio...

In the past few days, Facebook has shown me a couple of statements that resonate with the political situation we are in. First, this: It re...

The day got away with me.  I spent part of it (re)watching Gosford Park , which I remember liking when it came out in 2001, but as is often ...

Kristen Gillbrand should resign. She's a good example of why Democrats like Angie Craig should not be in office when we here in Minnesot...

I recently spent most of an hour early on a Sunday evening standing on a corner where two relatively busy streets in Saint Paul intersect. T...

I saw these two posts on BlueSky a couple of days ago: Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a ...

As the World Cup was getting underway, I guess a lot of Europeans were posting to social media about how hot it is here in various parts of ...

Quoting Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley : Instead of arresting the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the FBI was out t...

Let's see, the first half of June 2026... I'm sure nothing much happened, right? It began with continuing reaction to the Supreme Co...