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Just watched SBM again.

I’d forgotten or, maybe, just now seeing how important the character Vern is to the dynamic.
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Joy is seeing the sun set in the south.
December 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

RIP
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
When I hear an antivaxxer object that official recommendations are profitable for pharmaceutical companies...

Yes. Yes, they are. That's how capitalism works.

Don't like it? Fight for universal health care and the fact of a single payer will control those profit margins.
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today I made soup from the bone + of a pork shoulder I roasted last weekend. In went the aspic from the drippings, presoaked 1/2lb (dry) GN beans, & onion, carrots, celery, scallions sauteed in tsp of fat from drippings. Just finished a bowl.

In the moment, I feel like I never want to eat again.
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
You know that thing? About movies you should have but haven’t yet seen?

So, here in MSP, given imminent BS, I needed a couple of hours of escape. I just watched “Highlander”. For the first time. And, my soul is restored.

Don’t judge.
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Current mood in MSP...

Less than a week after the joyful & welcome arrival of winter, now we learn the ICE is coming. And, I feel sick.
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Now batting for the Twins - the centerfielder - (say it with me) Kirrr…
Got handed down a bunch of sports memorabilia. Thought you guys might like this

#MinnesotaTwins #TwinsBaseball #MLB
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Had my sons + the elder’s GF over yesterday to share a belated Thanksgiving meal.

Pro-tip: instead of roasting an oversized bird with 100 ways to fail and only mediocre fare if you succeed, roast a bone-in pork shoulder. There are a 100 ways to succeed all of which are delicious.

Is it cheating?
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Gloriously long line in Minneapolis W10 ☺️
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I quit playing video games at PacMan. Never learned a screen pattern.
I never watched Saturday morning cartoons
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Finally. A blue line I'm going to be happy to get behind.
October 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Late flowering Minnesota feral cannabis at a rest area.
🧪 #ditchweedwrangler #imapotanist
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Why Tyler Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk begins and ends with one person - Tyler Robinson.

Use of “they” as a rhetorical object of blame is as likely to be evidence of projection as it is to correspond to anything real.
September 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
What’s more ironically & tragically hilarious than Trump continuing to think he’s in charge of anything?

That the main stream press continues to cover him as if that’s the case. And, that so many people seem to believe it.

It’s Project 2025, baby - the “always follow the money” of the moment.
September 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Something not called out enough...

Every new fee, tariff, share dividend, or other form of payment established by executive order is money going into an executive branch slush fund. It can be spent without any need for legislation and without Congressional oversight.
September 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
When a nonexistent group gets designated a “terrorist organization”, evidence isn’t needed to “identify” someone as member of the group and therefore as a terrorist. Nor can any evidence refute being so identified.

Start practicing holding your breath underwater.
September 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Rest in peace (and unlimited breadsticks), Ms. Hagerty. www.grandforksherald.com/news/marilyi...
Marilyn Hagerty, Herald reporter and columnist for nearly 70 years, dies at age 99
She wrote for the Herald for more than 60 years and became nationally famous for her work as a food critic.
www.grandforksherald.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I worked in Minneapolis when Marilyn Hagerty went viral for her review of the Olive Garden. Her life before and after was fascinating. Great obituary here for a great newswoman.
www.grandforksherald.com/news/marilyi...
Marilyn Hagerty, Herald reporter and columnist for nearly 70 years, dies at age 99
She wrote for the Herald for more than 60 years and became nationally famous for her work as a food critic.
www.grandforksherald.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
An act fueled, in part, by a romantic relationship, maybe. It sure as hell didn’t happen in a vacuum.

Aside from maybe a single shot target rifle, few more effective choices at that distance than a bolt action .30-06.

I hunt and don’t apologize. But it’s hella thin line. “One shot.”

#deerhunter
September 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM