The authors of “Let the sunshine in” win a Spotty ™

August 14, 2019

Tom Berkelman, Arne Carlson and Janet Entzel win a Spotty ™ for their Commentary

To my fellow tail-end Charlies:

August 10, 2019

If you had any question where you, the St. Louis River watershed, Ojibwe tribe members and landowners, City of Duluth, and environmentalists stood in the eyes of Glencore plc, well now, there is no doubt. If you had any before. Glencore met with Governor Walz and I guess he was bold enough to suggest that […]

by Steve Timmer

I have seen the nadir of the human intellect, and it is Trump

August 9, 2019

Corporate media has done a piss-poor job of informing the public about the major issues with Trump’s mental health, especially his delusional and narcissistic disorders. But it’s been even worse when it comes to how “President” Donald Trump is so god-damned pathetically just fucking unbelievably stupid. The absolute idiot seems completely unable to distinguish fact […]

by Dan Burns

Corporate media cowers on Trump racism, and the results are pitiful

August 6, 2019

1. First and foremost, they never actually use the word “racist” to describe someone who is exactly that. Doing so might get c. media’s base (tellingly, the same as the Republican Party’s), of subscribers/viewers/listeners considerably removed from their first youth, all riled up. But journalists too often look away, insisting they can’t tell where Trump […]

by Dan Burns

Minnesota’s investment follies

August 2, 2019

Word comes via the Star Tribune that Minnesota’s investment board has invested in Glencore, Antofagasta, and Enbridge. Swell. In addition to the teensy conflict of interest it presents (all are supplicants to Minnesota agencies), this makes some members of the environmental community, well, gag, on a general level. Some people are asking for divestiture. As […]

by Steve Timmer

“Emotional AI” is going to be the greatest, right?

July 26, 2019

As with everything else tech, the first and so far quite possibly only thing you’ve seen or heard about “emotional AI” is how wonderfully gloriously great it all is, with no downside at all. You know, like social media has worked out to be. Uh, not so fast. An ACLU report published (June 13) called […]

by Dan Burns

How serious is Big Energy, about going green?

July 23, 2019

Judging by what Xcel Energy is doing, here in Minnesota, it would seem that they are quite serious indeed. As Xcel Energy prepares a filing to close its last coal units in Minnesota, a lesser-known provision of the settlement announced (in May) commits the utility to energy savings equivalent to another power plant. The agreement […]

by Dan Burns

Stauber and Emmer to save the day for Twin Metals

July 16, 2019

Take this, sulfides opponents! Members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Western Caucus, including Eighth District Representative Pete Stauber are seeking an investigation of what they’ve termed an “Obama Administration scandal-plagued land grab in northern Minnesota.” Stauber, caucus chairman Paul Gosar of Arzona, and Minnesota’s Tom Emmer, are seeking a U.S. House investigation into Obama […]

by Dan Burns

Useful idiots

July 12, 2019

In the Strib (the paper edition) yesterday, July 11th, the editorial board of the Largest Newsroom in Minnesota! penned a genuine stinker about dropping the reciting the pledge of allegiance before meetings of the city council in St. Louis Park. It stuns me that an event of such little consequence could inflame so many people, […]

by Steve Timmer

Getting rid of student debt would be great, but…

July 9, 2019

There has to be something for those that don’t have any.

by Dan Burns

Natural law is in the eye of the beholder: his name is Mike Ebnet

July 2, 2019

Fellow Edinan Mike Ebnet got some ink in the letters section of the Strib: Here’s how I interpret that book excerpt and natural law A couple of things surprised me about a June 23 letter about the June 16 excerpt from “The Conservative Sensibility,” a new book by Washington Post columnist George F. Will. One, […]

by Steve Timmer

The Twin Metals/Trump family relationship is all over the news

June 27, 2019

But why now?

by Dan Burns