The Minnesota Twins not long ago managed to bamboozle politicians into helping them with stadium financing - including bypassing a law requiring a referendum on such things in the to-be-afflicted area. Now the Vikings want a similar screw-the-people deal for themselves. As anyone who know me at all has figured out, I am against this. If the " ( Read more... )

It looks like the Obama administration actually managed to save a major US city from disaster.

According to another journal, they're finally over, but they'll return like a resistant infection in 2010. Of course it's still not a good idea to turn on broadcast television as there is soon to be a political convention, followed by another political convention. And then campaign commercials and campaign coverage (for TV values of...) ad nauseum ( Read more... )

No such luck, I know. It seems like they ought to be, as they've been in the news for far too long.

Oh yeah, new icon. Seems fitting in a few ways.