This Saturday is the DFL convention for Senate District 65. We’ll show up early at Central High School so that we have plenty of time to greet old friends and comrades we’ve worked both for and against through various elections and issues. With the temperature poking up over freezing, it may prove to be a hard day to keep us all focused on the politics. But March has more happening than a little warmth and a few state tournaments – it’s the real start of political season.
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Journalism and other myths.
Disconnect
It’s been a terrible week for casual violence. There was a shooting at a university and then a plane crashed into an IRS office. Nooze crews then searched through the wreckage of the lives to try to find out just what went wrong.
They probably won’t come up with anything, at least not before the next similar episode occurs. There won’t be much of a follow-up because another event will overtake the scene of carnage. These two episodes are just more disconnected events in a string of people who use whatever implements are at hand to lash out. It is that disconnect that they, and all acts of violence, have in common.
Smallness
The hidden and the manifest give birth to each other.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short exhibit each other.
High and low measure each other.
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 2 (John C.H. Wu translation)
Jet Stream
When in doubt, you can always talk about the weather in polite Minnesota conversation. Days like today, when we are expected to have a foot of snow and Olympic Ice Dancing on the roads, it’s a topic you can count on. It’s not controversial but it provides a nearly endless supply of entertainment much like driving a flaming bus through a wall of televisions, at least in the sense that it’s likely to be lethal.
Great Recession? Great Denial
What is the best way to describe our economic situation? If you look at the popular press, the term that is gaining truck lately is “Great Recession”, a term that refers to the worst recession since the Great Depression of 1929-1937. But isn’t a really bad Recession just one way of defining a “Depression”? Well, maybe, but that would involve using that dreaded “D word”. That kind of cowardice, the inability to call the situation what it is, lies at the heart of why we aren’t capable of dealing with it properly – which is why it continues to get worse.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 