Cover of And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Senne for the AP. Photo is technically under copyright until, most likely, the mid-2130s. By order of his estate, six Dr. Seuss stories got cancelled … Continue reading
The Uptown Theater in Minneapolis on March 28th. Photo by Lorie Shaull under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license. Last March, I strongly advocated strict stay-at-home orders (aka “lockdowns”) throughout most of the United States. When they said “two weeks to … Continue reading
Some months ago, a friendly acquaintance saw a casual remark I made on a politics forum about how Democrats will never win in states like West Virginia because they are anti-unborn. My acquaintance objected: “Democrats aren’t anti-unborn. We just believe … Continue reading
Well, this will be a short-lived post, but the Joint Session to Count the Electors has started. I was going to watch this anyway, because I did so much work explaining how it might work in the course of my … Continue reading
The joint session to count the electoral votes, 1925 I haven’t blogged for a while–it was Christmas, I have a life, and my mea culpa post on lockdowns can wait a few more weeks–but I posted on Facebook about Sen. … Continue reading
If you look at the Minnesota Department of Health’s hospital capacity stats today, they don’t look that bad. There’s an even more soothing version of this data circulating on certain Minnesota-centric Facebook groups: Ordinary ICU bed usage (in non-covid times) … Continue reading
I wrote this on Facebook yesterday (Wednesday) at 10:06 PM. If anything, it’s even more true now than it was then, so I figured it worth posting here as well. You can look at each state that’s out and say, … Continue reading
OVERALL: Minnesota is in the midst of a very dangerous outbreak of covid-19, the likes of which we have not seen before. The situation is much worse today than it was at any time during the lockdown. DETAIL: I put … Continue reading
The day of the Brexit vote, the very first constituency to report results, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, reported a defeat for Brexit, 51%-49%. The defeat for Brexit there was expected. However, the margin was wrong: experts had expected Brexit to fail in Newcastle by 12 points, not … Continue reading
Guiding Star Wakota (formerly known as the Wakota Life-Care Center) is a charity which provides ultrasounds, childbirth and breastfeeding classes, pregnancy tests, material assistance (diapers, clothes, pack-n-plays, etc.), referrals, and other services to pregnant mothers in need of help. Wakota … Continue reading
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