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Many people have been asking very good questions about the Republican Primaries, which start incredibly early this time ‘round. Sadly, I don’t have any good answers – but I can give a few really lousy ones.
Q: Why are they called “Primaries”?
A: It’s what comes first, just like “Primary School”. That’s why they often behave like 6 year olds.
It’s been quite a year in the economy. 70% of all Americans think the economy is going badly according to a CNN poll, with unemployment the biggest concern of a solid majority. By a 7-1 margin Americans will tell you this is aContinue Reading
It’s a story that truly deserves the term “meteoric” – a brief ball of heat streaking across the sky for just one moment, then crashing to the earth with a terrific thud. The rise and fall of Michael Brodkorb is the Continue Reading
A quiet grey day in Saint Paul rustles slowly as the kids and animals laze deep into the morning. There’s no reason to get up early – no obligations, nowhere to be, no sun calling. The holiday has started on its own time, creeping into our lives without much fuss and fanfare because that’s how it comes. The holiday starts when everything else stops.
Darkness falls quickly, long before dinner. The evenings are deep and reflective, times that make body and soul a bit weary. Deep Winter, just before the Solstice, is a time for imagination and possibility more than making something happen.
Winter Solstice arrives precisely on December 22nd at 05:30 GMT, or 11:30 CDT on the 21st. At this moment, the northern hemisphere will be at its darkest. Continue Reading
There are times when it seems as through the world is falling apart. The power of nations and their armies, which has only become greater through the last two generations, seems paralyzed to act in the face of growing unrest and demands for freedom around the world. The best solutions to the frozen uncertainty seems to be in nature, a life closer to the farm and organic. Imagi Continue Reading
The crowd at the bar seems a bit dull, almost disinterested. There’s an NHL hockey game on, but the place is evenly split between those who are silently mesmerized by the sweeping movements across the ice and those who have friends to talk to. And then, with one flick of a stick the puck flies past the goalie and GOAL! Continue Reading
News stories on the economy are full of many subjects that would have seemed strange to American readers just a few years ago – European banking, the developing world, clever financial instruments, and so on. There is one word that is strangely absent, however – “Recovery”. This once prominent term has apparently been banished from reporting, possibly because no one believes that th Continue Reading
Since October, most of the financial news has been about Europe and the potential for a global meltdown. The credit squeeze resulting from this crisis has become painful enough to demand serious action, which in global terms means our own Continue Reading