If I walk up to you with hammer and say “I could break your knees if you don’t give me $20 but I won’t,” would you feel relieved that I’d ruled out breaking your knees?

I'm so proud of Chicagoans and Minnesotans standing up for their neighbors and their communities.

The Somali community, which at least at one point was the excuse for this crackdown, are there because decades ago because Lutheran Social Services and other Minnesota charities invited them, welcomed them, supported them, making MN their refuge as it had been for their own ancestors.

And then you were stuck with a copy of the Joshua Kadison CD but the used record store wouldn't buy it, so instead it just lived in your binder of discs forever, inviting judgement from anyone who came over and fllipped through it.

(Now I'm sitting here choosing which ones I'm going to order.)

Target sells Cascade powder (at least in New Jersey).

A ducking annoyance

Boxing Day's been good to me, Howard

I'm excited for you to get to the part where he talks about when he played a show at a restaurant in NJ