Category: General

Been in Duluth since Tuesday mid-afternoon, and it’s been stormy the whole time I’ve been here.  Hope I-35E is clear this afternoon when I head back to the Twin Cities.I makes you wonder why people life here… it’s certainly pleasant in the Summer, but with snow like this, who needs it.  The snowfall totals were…

An interesting phrase, “vanishing caloric density”, that discussed on the CBS Sunday Morning food issue, 24-Nov-2013, in reference to Cheetos and how they melt in your mouth fooling your brain into thinking that there are no calories at all in this calorie dense food.

Just what we need.  Tensions with China to get out of control over their new air defense zone, and a shooting war to ensue.  If that doesn’t trigger WW III, I’d be surprised.I just can’t figure out what China hopes to gain by this posturing.  If they start a war, then how does it help…

Although Fall is progressing apace, Thanksgiving is now done, Black Friday is here, there’s a poinsettia plant on the bench in front of the picture window; and within a week, we may get snow that will last until the spring…This cartoon in last Sunday’s Star-Tribune really hit my funny bone, and I thought that you…

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin

The new accounting system that the state hastily installed right after the shutdown in 2011, SWIFT is supposed to stand for StateWide Integrated Financial Tools.The joke at MDE when I was there was that, “SWIFT Wasn’t too SWIFT.”Today I heard a much better one from someone who preferred to remain anonymous, “Shit We’re In Fuckin’…