Good Monday noon Fellow Seekers,
This piece is cross-posted at my new home, MinnPost.com.  
In Thursday’s Strib, the snarky gossip C.J. relayed a tale reinforcing exactly the image that Senate candidate Al Franken is trying to shed, that of a rude, angry, self-important loudmouth whose idea of relating to Republicans — even a mere Carl conservative […]

Good Friday morning Fellow Seekers,
(This piece, written in the wee hours of post-Iowa Friday morning, is cross-posted at MinnPost.com. You’ll find it in the right-hand column under “Current posts.”
Just watched several hours of CNN coverage of the Iowa results. I know I’m supposed to hate it all, but mostly pretty decent, methinks. I was looking […]

Good Friday noon Fellow Seekers, 
Only three stories start on the Strib front page today.
All three (a Duluth jury’s verdict against a Brainerd woman for for sharing music on the internet; the Henn. Co. District Court ruling that Sen. Larry Craig doesn’t get to take back his guilty plea; and more MnDOT funding woes) are legitimate page one contenders to the eye […]