UPDATE JANUARY 12, 2011: My post for today re Haiti. January 10, 2011 post on Haiti UPDATE JANUARY 11, 2011: Twin Cities focus News Release for the Bells for Haiti Committee: Honoring Haiti, One Year Later: Bells to Sound Across Minnesota on Wednesday, January 12th City Halls, Churches, and Schools to Toll their Bells at […]
UPDATE JANUARY 13: Minneapolis Star Tribune front page article, etc. Enroute to church this morning I passed within blocks, as always, the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis. It usually stands out when viewed from Interstate 94, but today it was hard to pick it out: overnight the roof collapsed from the weight of the snow from […]
UPDATE 8:15 P.M. DECEMBER 11: Most likely we have over 20″ of snow at our home, thus far no wind. Didn’t leave the house all day. More snow than expected. UPDATE II 8:10 A.M. DECEMBER 12: We can now classify the storm as a modern day catastrophe. Not only was the Vikings-Giants game postponed till […]
Pearl Harbor Day I posted a piece about my Uncle Frank and his service and death on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The day went on and late in the afternoon came an e-mail from a name I’d never heard before. The e-mail included two photos of my Uncle Frank in […]
For the record, some time ago, before the November elections, I wrote my U.S. Senators arguing in favor of letting the tax cuts expire for everyone at the end of 2010 – including my own. My wife and I are small fish in the economic pond that is the U.S., but even for ourselves I […]
December 7, 1941, my Uncle Frank Bernard was minding his own business on the USS Arizona, berthed at Pearl Harbor, HI. Without doubt he was awake at the time a Japanese bomb destroyed his ship and snuffed out his life. 1176 shipmates also died that day. Frank was definitely at the wrong place at the […]
My daily hangout for morning coffee is a very busy place, more or less the ‘crossroads’ for the commuting class in my community – a community which would be considered fairly prosperous and definitely middle class. I am at my station during drive time every morning, next to the front door, so I can see […]
December 3, I passed along a commentary of mine printed in the December 2 2010 Minneapolis Star Tribune. I was responding to an earlier column by Washington Post columnist George Will about regulation of video games. The blog post including the commentaries is here. As of 5 a.m. December 4, there have been 14 comments […]
The below commentary of mine appeared on the opinion page in the December 2, Minneapolis Star Tribune. You can also read it as printed in the STrib here. I was responding to a commentary by George Will of the Washington Post which appeared in the Nov. 28 newspaper. I was gone most of the day […]
Yesterday, I checked the internet to fill in a blank in my November 4 post about the 2010 election. That blank is filled in the bold-faced section in the fourth paragraph under the photo. Succinctly: about two-thirds as many voters went to the polls in 2010, as did in 2008; that turnout was slightly higher […]