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 […]
The May 21, Minneapolis Star Tribune had an excellent editorial as we continue in year four after “normal” came to be redefined in March, 2020. The editorial is here, and worth your time: Covid-19 editorial StarTribune May 21 2023. My handy counter says that Covid-19 came up 143 times in my blog since March of […]
PRENOTE: Several additions to the Oregon Trail post here. Especially note John’s comment about “The Way” * It is impossible to stay ahead of ‘breaking news’. It is almost enough to drive a sane person mad. I say “almost”…. Some current events: The Republican U.S. House of Representatives is holding the world hostage over a very […]