Month: November 2010
-
Glad Tidings of Great Misery
So the Minnesota governor’s race is tied between Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer. The fear is that the recount will take as long as it did for the Coleman/Franken race and that will leave Tim Pawlenty in office along with a Republican majority in both houses through the entire legislative session. That could mean slash…
-
Welcome to Mississippi
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ran a piece in the Sunday paper this week noting that we have a ratio of 759:1 high-school students to guidance counselors.That ratio places us in 49th place in the nation. A spot usually reserved for the state of Mississippi.And if you think that’s bad, we just had an election that put…
-
And hopefully good over bad
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.Rupert Murdoch
-
Supply & Demand
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.Henry Ford
-
NYC Marathon
My second cousin’s step-daughter, Shalane Flanagan, is competing in her first marathon on Sunday, and today there were two articles about her in, USA Today, and NBC Universal Sports.Good Luck Shalane!