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Shot in the Dark - May 29, 2008
Saint Thomas University - the Twin Cities’ main and most prestigious Catholic university - just can’t win for losing. For years, they sell their Catholic soul to try to appeal to the urban, big-money, soft-left crowd …
Tagged: culture war, faiths and their followers
Shot in the Dark - May 29, 2008
or is it a fiendish parody? Things started well enough: My tires sang on iceless roads, and the flooding sunlight raised a dew of sweat on my forehead. I turned off the heater, and in a fit of wild abandon brought …
Tagged: media
Shot in the Dark - May 29, 2008
Years ago, my first good technical writing job was for a company that was contracting with Nabisco to produce computer-based training for a “bag in a box” line in Portland, Oregon. The OSHA regulations for people on …
Tagged: culture war
Shot in the Dark - May 29, 2008
Question for all your bikers/excursionmongers who know the Bloomington area. Old Cedar Avenue runs south of Old Shakopee Road, southwest of the Mall of America. It’s west of the current Cedar (Hwy 77). On the map, and …
Shot in the Dark - May 28, 2008
So after a couple of years of seeing the commercials, I had to find out - who is the girl in those “you have to put Mercury on your list” commercials? Well, the ‘net knows all - it’s Jill Wagner. OK - but, better …
Tagged: geekery
Shot in the Dark - May 28, 2008
Who do you think wrote this? The Reformers are coming! They are many and hungry to redress the steep slide of mostly mainstream media into an abyss of cultural waste infotainment, shallow journalism, ignorance of real …
Tagged: media
Shot in the Dark - May 27, 2008
Gavin Sullivan has been trying to ask CD3 GOP Congressional candidate Erik Paulsen some questions. The discussion, for whatever reason, isn’t going well; Sullivan isn’t getting answers, Paulsen isn’t talking to him …
Tagged: blogs, campaign 08
Shot in the Dark - May 27, 2008
You’ve no doubt noticed - my NARN colleague Michael Brodkorb’s role in derailing the Al Franken senate campaign made it to the Sunday New York Times. The Times’ writer, Monica Davey, made what seemed to be a game …
Tagged: campaign 08, narn, m o b
Shot in the Dark - May 27, 2008
Scott Johnson notes that yesterday was the 88th anniversary of the birth of Peggy Lee, in Jamestown,ND. She was a musician’s musician. Think, for example, of her terrific duets with Bing Crosby and Mel Torme. or of …
Tagged: music
Shot in the Dark - May 26, 2008
Steam Valve at TvM notes something I’ve posted before on Memorial day: It is the Soldier, not the minister Who has given us freedom of religion. It is the Soldier, not the reporter Who has given us freedom of the …
Tagged: war on terror, history and its making