i was listening to the Power Trip Morning Show on my way into work yesterday, as i am wont to do. they were discussing music, particularly the popularity of genres like rap / hip-hop and country. chris hawkey– a person who i typically agree with– asserted that country music is by definition “good” because of the high number of albums sold.

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having huey lewis and the news’s “walkin’ on a thin line” stuck in your head for hours and hours and hours.

I was going to go with the post title of ‘Spring Paining’, but sanity prevailed. Anyway.

I don’t know what in the hell is going on in the NL Central these days, but I want no part of it. NO PART OF IT! Ya hear?!

Exhibit A.

aaaaaand…

Exhibit B.

Oof. I need a drink.

A fascinating and well written article in today’s Strib on a 90-year-old WWII Minnesota veteran named Fred Hargesheimer

It’s long, but worth your time. It’s surprising no one has written a book or made a movie about this (yet).

If you’ve come across this after the Strib link has expired, or are looking for more info check: http://www.hargycaldera.name/

I didn’t see it coming. I really didn’t.

I had really thought that with all the wins Barack Hussein Obama had racked up the thougths of “a black man can’t run for president”, “no way America will elect a black man” had fallen by the wayside. But, no.
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