Category: wadE
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Family Leave Tax
From the \”Help me, I\’m becoming a Republican!!!\” department… N.J. may OK paid leave for family care
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Opening Day 2008: A Running Diary
Nothing screams opening day like the smell of pine tar, the feel of FieldTurf between your toes, and a half foot of snow on the teflon dome. Ah yes, it\’s Opening Day for (most of) baseball. Channelling my inner Sports Guy (that sounded bad, didn\’t it?) I\’ll be keeing a diary during tonight\’s game. Come…
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You asked for it…
I can see it now… April 5th, 2010. Opening day for the Minnesota Twins coming off of their promising 87 win 2009 season. But… opening day at the new ballpark will have to wait because there is 7 inches of snow on the field, and it\’s still coming down. Now April snow isn\’t a guarantee…
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Lt. Frederic Hargesheimer
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…
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The Archie Bunker Vote
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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kirby
Kirby Puckett passed away two years ago today. While sad, his death did not affect me like others did—Paul Wellstone, for example—because you felt like you could almost see it coming. Howard Sinker has posted some fans’ memories on his Strib blog. wadE and I thought we’d take the opportunity to do the same. Feel…
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Know-Nothing President
As I perused the headlines on news.yahoo.com this afternoon I couldn\’t help but stop and read the one titled — Bush: US is not headed into recession. This sort of \”maybe if I close my eyes they can\’t see me\” leadership has grown so old. It truly makes one yearn for January of 2009. At…
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Super Tuesday: Minnesota Caucus
So unless you\’ve been living under a rock, or doing a much better job at avoiding the media than I have, you have probably heard that today is Fat Tuesday… er, wait… make that Super Tuesday! You are also probably aware that this Presidential election is the most exciting and wide open in a million…
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Happy Groundhog\’s Day!
What a glorious day to get up at dawn and investigate the doings of your local rodent population… in this case, the Groundhog! As you probably have read, Punxsutawney Phil saw this shadow this morning giving us six more weeks of winter. However, maybe that\’s just only six more weeks for those in Pennsylvania. Here…
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Berman Loses It
Further proof that we\’ve been slacking here at SP: This has been up for 3 days on the internet and I\’m finding it just now! http://deadspin.com/351147/chris-berman-is-somewhat-perturbed-with-the-help I blame Alex… he\’s our resident Deadspin watcher. Which is worse, Berman taking the Lords name in vain several times, or the 3 or 4 f-bombs?