Also, recent posts: Canada and Gratuitous Force. Happy Day to all, whatever your personal relationship to the term “Father” might be. I specifically remember, this day, Marshall, who died March 30, 2023, at the doorstep of 87 years. Marsh is survived by Karen, two daughters, grandkids and a constellation of other relatives and friends. My […]
Saturday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune devoted three full pages to the Department of Justice examination in the wake of the George Floyd murder in south Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. You can read everything about the report, including link to the report, here, the Department of Justice website. I first wrote about this case on May […]
Here’s downtown St. Paul, less than half mile away, 3:05 p.m. on Wednesday June 14, 2023. This afternoon, as predicted, we got a package from the Canadian Wildfires – the same ones which nearly blacked out metro New York City and much of the northeast a few days earlier. (I searched “Canada wildfires June 2023” […]
PRENOTE: Yesterdays post on the 2023 Minnesota state legislature results. Tonight 8 p.m. TPT Channel 2 (PBS, Twin Cities). airs Part Three (last part) of “Living With Hitler”, presumably how the Third Reich ended for the people who temporarily benefitted by its beginning and middle. I’ve watched the first two parts. It’s very well worth […]
PRENOTE: Tomorrow night on Twin Cities PBS, Channel 2, 8 p.m CDT., part 3, last segment of “Living With Hitler”. I have watched the first two segments, and this is really excellent. Everyone should absorb the hard learnings of the results of the Third Reich. * Last Thursday I attended a public meeting reporting on […]
POSTNOTE: Life on the airwaves – where most of us seem to get our news – goes on, and Joyce Vance and Heather Cox Richardson had a couple of pertinent posts overnight Wednesday. They are linked under their names, above. Also, from time to time I just do ‘quiet’ kind of posts, as I did […]
As a French-Canadian (my father was 100% F-C) I’ve long been interested in the people of my roots, thus I was intrigued by the namesake of my other (German) grandparents county, LaMoure County, in North Dakota, whose county seat is LaMoure. Cleaning out the junk at the farm some years ago, I came across the […]
Thursday, President Biden fell at the Air Force Academy graduation exercises. He apparently tripped on a sandbag being used as an anchor for something. Apparently, earlier in his commencement address, he ‘pardoned’ any student at the Academy who had been written up for something or other – Academy students are, after all, kids as we […]
Friday, list member and long-time friend, Carol, sent me this photo from south Minneapolis… …which was date/time stamped May 29, 2020, at 7:07 a.m.. The photographer is looking towards nearby Lake Street. This is not a routine photo to me. My friend Ruhel’s GandhiMahal Restaurant on 27th and Lake was burned overnight on May 29, […]
POSTNOTE 4: Minneapolis Star Tribune June 5, 2023: Antiwar STrib Jun 5 2023. See also, Anniversary, May 29, 2023. Some comments on Covid-19 at three years, here. * Monday is Memorial Day, and as is my usual practice, I’ll join the Vets for Peace commemoration at the Minnesota State Capitol Grounds (near the Vietnam Memorial […]