Playing with fire

November 8, 2021

The Minneapolis School Board considers a dangerous resolution

Time for the bloated, flailing political polling industry to crash and start over

November 6, 2021

What got me going on this was the latest ridiculous high-profile political polling debacles, namely, the California recall and the New Jersey gubernatorial election. But it’s been a long time coming. I’m going to assume that as someone intelligent, knowledgeable, cool, and righteous enough to be visiting this website, you recall the various examples to […]

by Dan Burns

When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar*

October 28, 2021

A Gilbert and Sullivan character shows up at the Minnesota Court of Appeals

by Steve Timmer

Pesticides are killing the soil, and Big Ag has no problem with that

October 27, 2021

Recent studies indicate that beneficial organisms in soil are being annihilated. “What this study really drives home is that pesticide use is incompatible with healthy ecosystems, across organisms, pesticide classes, and a whole set of different health outcomes, including death,” said Kendra Klein, senior scientist at Friends of the Earth and co-author of the study. […]

by Dan Burns

Hard to tell, where much of the COVID school money ended up

October 22, 2021

From Oct. 20: After the pandemic shut down schools across the country, the federal government provided about $190 billion in aid to help them reopen and respond to the effects of the pandemic. In the year and a half since millions of children were sent home, the Education Department has done only limited tracking of […]

by Dan Burns

A polite suggestion for Minnesota’s marijuana parties

October 12, 2021

For the greater good

by Dan Burns

Undercover among America’s secret theocrats

October 6, 2021

Jesus plus nothing

by Steve Timmer

Checking out where the VA is at right now

October 5, 2021

You may have seen this. Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data, according to documents newly released by congressional investigators. As ProPublica first reported in 2018, a trio based at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort weighed in on policy and […]

by Dan Burns

Charles Dean is the latest Spotty ™ winner

October 3, 2021

Anti-vaxxers ought to identify themselves

by Steve Timmer

The Pioneer Press shines a bright, unflattering light on HCPA

September 21, 2021

Who the [blank] is Woodstock Capital LLC?

by Steve Timmer

Trying to figure out MN Senate Party of Trumpers

September 21, 2021

Have they really decided they’d better move away from being so royally deserving of the “Party of Trump” moniker? Hard to say. I’m referring to their having picked Sen. Jeremy Miller (R-Winona) as the new Senate Majority Leader. He’s considered to be about the least extreme, selfish, and deranged member of the GOP caucus, there. […]

by Dan Burns

The power to pardon in Minnesota should be the governor’s – continued – a reprise

September 15, 2021

Judges always think they did it right

by Steve Timmer