MN Rep Tim Walz Health Care Forum Report
In a health care forum last night, Minnesota representative Tim Walz said that "not doing anything is a choice, not doing anything will have consequences!" He added "There will be a personal cost,...
View ArticleHelp: Best Pro Health Care Write Up?
Lately all I can find on the web is write-ups about myths. Like Lakoff says, that is drawing attention to the wrong thing. I am looking for good basic hard fact hitting write ups on why we should be...
View ArticleAustralia Would Go to Civil War Before Giving Up Health Care
Peter Denny, is an American, who was originally from Australia. Peter Denny considers medicare-for-all, single-payer and the public option to be equivalent. I asked Peter how Australia felt about their...
View ArticlePower to the People is the Real Second Amendment Right
I support the second amendment because when I read this amendment to our constitution, I read "Power to the People". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right...
View ArticleMr. Eastwood, The Empty Chair Speaks Back and Wins
Conservatives can only debate empty chairs because when we talk back, they can not handle it.Talking back, yeah!Eastwood says, "This administration hasn't done enough to cure that [unemployment]."The...
View ArticleRomney Ramblings Run Rampant
Word clouds show visually what words were important in last night's presidential debate. Romney's word cloud had more number-words like "number", "million", "billion", "trillion", "percent," and...
View ArticleFilibuster = Presidential Veto
In giving the right to filibuster to any senator, we have essentially given the right of presidential veto to any senator. That seems an outrageous unbalance of power. But it seems to go even further....
View ArticleBook Review: Antifragile
Every once in a while, a book comes out with ideas that are like fireworks. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Antifragile" is a explosion of life changing ideas. Taleb gains his prominence as one of the...
View ArticleThe Stand Up Comedy of Living in America
America, the place where if you steal a few hundred dollars physically then you to jail for decades. But if you steal billions of dollars, you are called a CEO and successful. Then you are given more...
View ArticleHow does one emotionally cope with knowing about climate change?
We treat climate change like a logical problem, but it is an emotional problem of acceptance. Ignore the climate deniers for a moment. It an emotional acceptance problem for all of us who know and...
View ArticleMinnesota is the Most Livable State in Climate Change
What is the best state to live during all this climate change? I think it is Minnesota. I base this ranking on food, water and community. I base it on avoiding permanent flooding, tornadoes and...
View ArticleWhy No Republican Should Ever Volunteer Again
Our democracy has changed from people and votes to corporations and money. Now, the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the McCutcheon case joins Citizens United to allow money to speak very loudly. Even...
View ArticleHow to Stop Killer Cops
While it is reassuring that Tennessee Sheriff Jones fired officer Frank Phillips after a choking hold, we also sense that the firing would not have happened without the outstanding photos taken of the...
View ArticleWhat A Great Democratic Sheriff Says
I had a sheriff so bad that he thought locking protestors up in chicken wire enclosures was a good idea. But what does a good Democratic Sheriff look like? It took a whole campaign to find a great...
View ArticleWhy Minnesota Did Better and Why National Democrats Lost
If you look at Yougov survey of state rankings, then you will see that Minnesota is ranked 18th in scoring on progressive issues. Minnesota was behind Wisconsin and Michigan. Yet Minnesota is doing...
View ArticleFraming: The Winter People of Minnesota
Winter is a powerful framing for people in Minnesota. Winter invokes a shiver, an ache deep in our bones. Yet it binds us together like nothing else. We are the state known for winter, whether it is...
View ArticleTell A Minneapolis Officer How To Do His Job
A Minneapolis Police Officer posts an article in a local newspaper that implies we only have the excessive deadly-force option for policing, therefore which laws would we like to not have enforced?...
View ArticleRebranding Climate Change In Florida
Lets have some fun helping Florida in their "public relations" problem in talking about that-which-shall-never-be-named (climate change).We can call it the Venice solution in city planning, where cars...
View ArticleInsurance Will Crash When 1% Believes Climate Change
With climate change, insurance is soon to become unavailable in the market place. Insurance depends on small events not related to each other, quoting Wiki: Insurable losses are ideally independent and...
View ArticleIt could have been bad and it wasn’t - what good policing looks like!
Late at night after a very long day, I see someone looks like her car has broken down and she is waving for help. I reach inside and decide I am good for driving someone to get help. I pull over and...
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