Daughter Number Three

This morning I saw a list of the most and least rural states in the U.S. It highlighted both the states with the most rural people overall a...

The pseudonymous writer WBF posted a piece called Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation on Liberal Currents today.  The premise is that s...

Here's what I plan to be doing on Friday afternoons in rush hour for the next few weeks: standing on a corner in Saint Paul with this si...

Always read Ari Berman on voting rights.  His latest work in Mother Jones is on redistricting and the Supreme Court's Louisiana v.   Ca...

Trump's illegal ousting of three major news outlets from the White House this week has gotten a lot of attention and finally some solida...

The Star Tribune carried this advice column letter yesterday, and for some reason it really bugged me: Dear Eric: After college, I moved ...

There was a speech worth listening to at the United Nations 81st General Assembly yesterday, but it wasn't given by Donald Trump, who on...

My opinion on the Kennedy Center is that people should be encircling it 24 hours a day, just to make sure the regime doesn't show up wit...

Do you ever want to ask a Republican how it feels to be led around by the nose? I do.  

Did I mention it finally rained here? (Yes, I think I did.) Over the past five days or so, we've gotten about 2.5" and there's ...

It was a long day outside, mostly in the rain even though it wasn't supposed to be raining.  I hate complaining about rain when we'v...

I live in a house that has several white oak trees in or adjacent to its yard. The one near the back door had a mast year a few years ago, a...