Ah, Minnesota, we knew it well ! Alas, it seems we do not want Minnesota to be a part of the United States anymore … in fact, since a petition was created on November 11th, over 75% of the required signatures have already been offered. We petition the Obama Administration to: Peacefully grant the State [...]
Technically, the 520th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus will be this Friday, the 12th. I want to use the holiday to write about more than just good ol’ Christopher Columbus, specifically I want to address the notion of cultural dynamism versus stagnation, and the ideas of trans-cultural diffusion. I want very much to repudiate [...]
Crossposted from penigma.blogspot.com: We’ve seen too often where the right wing fringies go off the rails, behaving violently. One of their hot buttons is any language other than English being spoken, or any culture they identify as ‘other’, drawing a too narrow definition of “us” and “them”. Earlier at this year’s CPAC, right wing extremist [...]
The big headline last week was that the State of Arizona had enacted new legislation that gives broad powers to local police to require citizenship documentation be carried on person. It can be debated whether this legislation is long overdue or a quick political reaction to the murder of Robert Krentz and his dog who [...]
The headline of the Minnesota’s Republican Party’s Second Congressional District convention in Red Wing on March 20 that the delegates came within two votes of supporting a resolution supporting what state party chair Tony Sutton described as “the right of states to secede from the union,” one had to wonder what the First District convention [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
