Random Articles

• Mindy Greiling Just Stopped By Mindy Greiling, state rep for St. Anthony, Lauderdale, and Roseville, just stopped by to say ‘Hi’. I was in the basement organizing my tool shop (more on that later) when she rang the doorbell. I’m glad I took a moment to meet her.
• After New Orleans… “After New Orleans, the people in Baghdad said, ‘Oh, now I get it.’” - Thomas P. M. Barnett I’m 2/3 of the way through the presentation, and it just keeps getting better.
• $5 Buys You 2.9% of Brooklyn Center J paid his $5 and ran for mayor of Brooklyn Center. Yesterday, after the polls closed, he had 2.9% of the vote without campaigning at all. Seems like a pretty good return considering. Congrats J. Update: J’s post-primary write-up
• Why Health Coverage Shouldn’t be Tied to Employers “Weyco and Scotts Miracle-Gro, based in Marysville, Ohio, are in the vanguard of a growing effort by business to brake soaring medical costs by regulating such unhealthy employee behavior as smoking” Health coverage as a benefit of employment no longer makes sense - financially for employers or employees. Expecting employers to foot the bill and not
• George Lakoff on Katrina - Failure of Moral Values In a nice follow up to my earlier There’s No Helping the NeoCons post, George Lakoff comments that Katrina was not only a natural disaster and federal failure, it was a complete failure of the Republican moral and political philosophy. (emphasis is Lakoff’s) “The [right-wing conservatives] central principle: Government has no useful role. The only common good