Remember the early days of Monday Night Football, with Howard Cosell? Legend has it that a bar in Denver, whose Broncos allegedly got no respect during Cosell's halftime highlights, auctioned off... [...]
As several of us moaned during that voyage of the damned, watching the McCain campaign sink beneath us, Brack Obama had no experience whatever in running anything. And as I personally... [...]
I have given out some incorrect information regarding the upcoming Robbinsdale School Board Candidates Forum being presented this week by the League of Women Voters. Here is the information I verified... [...]
I am of course sad to report that a woman died after being hit by a Metro Transit bus Friday morning. As you may remember, about one person a year... [...]
It hit 63 degrees today, a whopping 5 degrees above normal! No wonder I had to doff the jacket while out walking this afternoon, listening to the Vikings. Something's different this... [...]
The stock market is up, some say the recession is over, but the rest of the news is pretty bleak. What a treat to see America at its best Saturday morning... [...]
I've heard callers on several talk shows say they've canceled their satellite / cable NFL packages because of the NFL wimping out on Rush Limbaugh - again. I'm not that level...' [...]
I wonder what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say of our brave new world, where as Dennis Prager said, if you're black and on the Left, it's perfectly acceptable to...' [...]
I will be making a personal appearance (!) at tonight's gathering at the Crystal VFW (5222 Bass Lake Road) at 7 pm. Featured are two of the eleven District School Board... [...]
I thought "MEA" was just two days, making for a four day weekend in mid-October. As we all know, the vast majority of teachers no longer attend this event, it's just... [...]
Feeling the need for a frivolous post, I thought I'd do a little TV critiquing. I'm all but unwilling to watch most network prime time fare, with one current exception, CBS's...' [...]
If I have one basic criticism of our K-12 public education in Minnesota, it's its near total focus on inputs, not outputs. It's a too rare exception to see a Suzanne... [...]
What a world! I'm sitting in an Alexandria hospital lobby while my son has knee surgery (football), my laptop happily connected to their guest Wi-Fi....' [...]
Due to travel plans, I weighed in a day early. That's a good feature of Weight Watchers, that there is always a meeting somewhere when you need it, at least in... [...]
I just had to pass along this little tidbit from InfoWorld.com. Those smug Mac computer ads are back, again misrepresenting a simple marketplace reality. Their Security Advisor Roger Grimes writes:... [...]
My home network was acting up tonight, finally had to reconfigure the wireless router. This isn't rocket science for me and it's within the skills of most anyone under 25 I...' [...]
KTLK's Chris Baker cited an article in the Rochester Post-Bulletin: we're number three nationwide for welfare spending as a percentage of total state and local spending. I was astounded to...' [...]
We will soon have another toll road in Minnesota, this one on Interstate 35W. It runs from Highway 13 in Burnsville to 42nd Street in south Minneapolis, minus the crosstown... [...]
Sarah Janecek recently confirmed a thought of mine, wondering why politics is so slow this season. Business usually picks up after the State Fair. There are 19 and counting candidates for... [...]
After a stellar week like Tim Pawlenty in 2003, I collapse like Tim Pawlenty in 2005, gaining over 8 pounds. But if I bounce back like the Pawlenty of 2007 and... [...]
I knew I'd have to write this post sooner or later. The excerpts from Sunday's ObamaThon and now the United Nations have me shaking my head. I never bought all of...' [...]
I've said before that forewarned is forearmed when reading the Minneapolis Star Tribune. You can wade through the bias and contempt to get most of a given story's verifiable content. But...' [...]
Getting in a little extra walking this afternoon, I listened to some MPR/NPR news. I realized why I don't really like it, besides the droll, pedantic signature voice style. They leave...' [...]
It's Wednesday, and my weigh in tonight was excellent, down more than 5 pounds, but not enough to get the first down. Yet, it was a spectacular week, and I'm lighter...' [...]
In just seven weeks, eleven candidates will vie for the the Robbinsdale School Board. There is no primary and with four seats in play, much could change.... [...]
I paid about as much attention to the DFL's recent "Leadership" summit as did the Governor. The agenda was plain enough, to embarrass the Governor into relenting on fiscal responsibility, to... [...]
Dennis Prager earns my web site subscription just on his unique ability to distill complex issues into their fundamentals - or their innate contradictions.... [...]
Tuesday night's 2 1/2 hour District 281 School Board meeting spent 90 of those minutes on just one seemingly minor item: a revised Entrance Policy for its legendary Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion... [...]
I'm sure making hard work of this. After sounding defeating the State Fair, Labor Day weekend got the better of me, leaving me with quite the mountain to climb this week...' [...]
Today started the 2009-2010 school year throughout Minnesota with a scant few exceptions granted to give 2010 construction projects more time. It was also the first "prime time" School Board meeting... [...]
Labor Day is over, the State Fair is over, and in many ways, the Summer is over. As is my custom, I am again wearing long sleeve shirts and ties, until... [...]
I've posted before that we could do without some small cities in Minnesota. Fresh evidence is in a Minneapolis Star Tribune article about the city of New Trier, population...' [...]
Phil Krinkie from The Taxpayers League of Minnesota recently posed a fair and obvious question. What role did former GOP Representative Kathy Tingelstad's 2008 vote to override the Governor... [...]
As of Friday, September 3, about 11 am, here's what I see on the Web regarding how some public school districts will be handling President Obama's Tuesday webcast.... [...]
When reading or listening to the words of those on the Left, I know I'm being misled when I see even a passing reference to Haliburton, a liberal code word for...' [...]
It's Wednesday, Weight Watchers weigh-in day. After a big setback last week, I bounced back, losing 5.4 pounds. And this included a trip to the State Fair and a lot of... [...]
What do politicians always say, the cover-up does more damage than the charge? Faced with two teachers who repeatedly, personally mocked a student, the Anoka-Hennepin School District first tried "corrective action"... [...]
President Obama is the opposite of Reagan's "hedgehog" that did a few things well, taking on too much, and so far not a win in sight. The latest is his [...]
I've been to many a State Fair, but this might have been the biggest turnout I've ever seen. It's either a green shoot or a last meal, but trying to get... [...]
Education Minnesota President Tom Dooher, responded to an editorial by D.J. Tice on how difficult it is to fire public employees. The particular case in question is of course... [...]
