The grievance and resentment are strong in this one

January 3, 2021

Writing to the Strib while gulping a tall glass of bile

Are phone companies really trying to block robocalls?

December 20, 2020

You may recall this. The article I took it from is dated Jan. 1, 2020. The bipartisan legislation expanded the power of the Federal Communications Commission to deter spam calls and reinforced the responsibility of individual phone companies to protect their own consumers. “With this legislation, phone companies will be required to give all consumers […]

by Dan Burns

Why is Emmer’s the only Minnesota name backing the Trumper sedition? – UpdateX2

December 11, 2020

Why aren’t other MN Party of Trumpers proudly there?

by Dan Burns

Biden and education – who knows, yet?

December 3, 2020

I’m somewhere between progressives who are in “give the guy a chance” mode, and those who are already openly cynical about there being realistic possibilities of Pres.-elect Biden bringing about much, if any, lasting, positive change during his term(s). Nothing wrong with pushing for positives, whether you privately have any optimism that way or not. […]

by Dan Burns

A little pandemic doggerel

November 21, 2020

We are Blue and they are Red

by Steve Timmer

Why not crush this Line 3 nonsense, once and for all?

November 18, 2020

The Minnesota Pollution “Control” Agency just rubber-stamped permitting for the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands sludge pipeline. Here’s one righteously brutal response: Twelve out of 17 members of a group that advises the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on environmental justice issues have resigned in protest of the agency’s approval late last week of a […]

by Dan Burns

I told those stoned fuckers not to do that

November 10, 2020

From this, written by me, some time before the election: It’s different now. There is a very straightforward path, and a very doable one, to make it legal in Minnesota soon. Governor Tim Walz supports legalization. The DFL-controlled House is fairly chomping at the bit – they know damn well what a winning issue this […]

by Dan Burns