I managed to trick my beloved nonagenarian paternal grandmother into staying on the phone with me for nearly an hour tonight, which was a new record in my nearly two years abroad. Her post-depression era tendencies are to cut off conversations at 15 minutes or so because of what it must be costing; it [...]
Yesterday I ran up again my arch-nemesis, the English Gentleman. I am a straight-talking, midwestern sort of girl. I am aggressive, hard-working and I want to be a leader. My youth and straight-forward nature make me the antithesis of everything the English Gentleman holds dear. I think it’s this [...]
This is for the people back in the American midwest. For those all a-flutter with “Expelled” (regardless of the factual inaccuracies portrayed in the context of tenure) let’s review the methods of science and hypotheses. The origin of life on this planet is not a falsifiable hypothesis. You cannot prove God created [...]
It seems as though it is now the American trend to shoot and kill as many people as possible in shopping areas or in Universities. It makes me so upset to hear about yet another multiple-fatality shooting at a midwestern institution of higher learning, albeit one that I had not actually heard of prior to [...]
I was disturbed to see that yesterday there was another mass murder shooting (5 dead) at a US shopping mall. This occurred near Chicago, and there appears to be neither a suspect nor a motive at this point. I am, of course, from Minneapolis, where occurred the birth of the indoor shopping mall in the [...]
When you grow up in Minnesota, there is always a “Minnesota connection” to everything that happens everywhere else in the world. Or so the local newscasters would have you believe. To a first approximation, there is just not enough exciting news to fill a 35 minute broadcast about goings on in Minneapolis or even the [...]
I stumbled onto the most amazing video this weekend while mindlessly surfing to try and unwind from waaaay too many hours working. The Minneapolis connection was irresistible even though the story is nothing but bizarre. Here we have the theory, by a group of fundamentalist Christians in Texas, suggesting that the I-35(W) bridge [...]
A new article that I stumbled on this week talks about America’s beleaguered national passenger rail provider, Amtrak. (This is not the typical article one reads about Amtrak, which almost always involves collisions with freight trains and automobile passenger deaths at rail crossings.) The shocking thing about the article is exactly how bad the [...]
I’m back in Minneapolis after my little trip to another state in the midwest, and I found it could be home as it is so much the same as other places I have lived in the midwest. So I have to say, in honor of the 2.5 years since I last lived in these [...]
Tomorrow, I have to fly to another midwestern state. So of course tomorrow there will be another blizzard here in Minneapolis. I cannot get either in or out of the MSP airport without there being snow. And of course there is a not very long layover for this one as it’s not from one hub [...]
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