February 2011
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And another thing about Suze Rotolo... →
Jeff Severns Guntzel here. After I posted a short bit about the death of Suze Rotolo, fightswithknives went further with this:
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Thanks, MinnPost and NYT. The second part of the obituary reads like this:
The relationship, lasting four years, was rocky. She was the daughter of Italian Communists with her own ideas about life, art and politics that made it increasingly...
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Suze Rotolo, muse and girlfriend to Bob Dylan,...
From the New York Times obit:
Ms. Rotolo, whose nickname was pronounced su-zee, met Mr. Dylan in 1961 at a Riverside Church folk concert at which he was performing. She was 17; he was 20.
“Right from the start I couldn’t take my eyes off her,” Mr. Dylan wrote in his memoir, “Chronicles: Volume 1,” published in 2004. “She was the most erotic thing I’d ever seen. She was fair skinned and...
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“If Democrats cannot figure out a way to make Republican invocations of “greed”...”
– Eric Black in Fisking Pawlenty’s speech at the Tea Party summit
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“There was a self-deprecating sense that came over Libyans because of what...”
– A Libyan-American living in Minnesota, from “Gaddafi’s reach: Fear in a Twin Cities living room.”
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Army Deployed Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators, including... →
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned.
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken was one of those singled out.
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“Dear friend. We received your kind letter in which you condemned the American...”
– Muammar Gaddafi in a letter to a group of second-graders in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Students wrote the dictator in 1986 to ask him to stop bombing the U.S., and he replied.
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Community Rally for Public Broadcasting with... →
whereabout:
Last Saturday morning, the U.S. House of Representative passed a continuing resolution (CR) eliminating all Federal funding for local public television and radio stations by a vote of 235-189. On February 28th, the continuing resolution will be taken up by the Senate. To restore this critical funding, public broadcasting needs your voice. Join us this Thursday for a community...
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Full Statement of the Attorney General on... →
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“These Girl Scout cookies are addictive. Not unlike morphine.”
– A MinnPost editor
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After endorsing Walker in the race for governor,...
State residents hardly can be surprised Walker wants to take drastic actions. He said as much in the campaign, but Walker didn’t make clear his plan included limiting the rights of most public employees to collectively bargain. And he should have.
…This newspaper, which endorsed the governor in his race against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, has a tradition of supporting fiscal...
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Gaddafi or Qaddafi? Welcome to the transliteration...
Changing letters or words from one alphabet into the corresponding letters or words from another alphabet is called transliteration. Rendering a language from another alphabet (or from a pictographic system such as Chinese) into the Latin alphabet is called Romanization.
…The difficulty in Romanizing Arabic was illustrated in the 1980s by the multiple spellings for Libyan strongman...
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No matter how the Legislature and Gov. Mark Dayton... →
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The power of nonviolent struggle, and how not to...
It’s hard to talk about nonviolent struggle without bringing 83-year-old political scientist Gene Sharp into the discussion. His seminal list “198 Methods of Nonviolent Action” and his book “From Dictatorship to Democracy” have inspired revolutionaries from Belgrade to Tehran, and now his work is being cited by some of the activists responsible for the wave of (mostly)...
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http://www.libyafeb17.com/ →
motherjones:
As we update MJ’s Libya Explainer, here’s an amazing live blog with updates from the nation.
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“City Pages’ web strategy is as troll-optimized as a storybook bridge.”
– David Brauer in “City Pages is right: New York Times standards slip when quoting City Pages commenters”
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While you were getting ready to shovel this... →
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Free Tax Preparation by AccountAbility MN
This looks like a great service.
freshmn:
AccountAbility Minnesota http://www.accountabilitymn.org
- We provide free tax preparation and financial services at 13 sites in St. Paul, Minneapolis and the suburbs. - We serve individuals making $30,000 or less per year and families making $50,000 or less per year. - Interpreters are available for Spanish, Hmong, Somali, and Oromo languages. ...
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WatchMichele Bachmann interviewed on Good Morning America. Thursday’s show also featured Lady Gaga.
“You know, I don’t really know that much about Lady Gaga,” the Minnesota Republican said.
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Minneapolis the 10th most dangerous U.S. city? →
We tied with Cleveland, apparently.
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Google Opens Up Infographic Tools for Everyone's... →
This could be very useful.
aakruse:
Today, Google has opened up the tools on its Public Data Explorer, so that you can use them to chart any old data set you might have laying around. … Now, to use all these nifty charts, you just have to put your data into a special format developed by Google, which is adapted to each of these visualizations. Afterward, you can share that data with anyone you...
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Rejoice! →
edkohler:
thomaslowrysghost:
David Brauer:
The Star Tribune begins pre-treating the comment cesspool today. The site — whose comments can make thinking people’s shoulders sag — will block opinions until moderators approve them. The only exception: sports, where users can post thoughts immediately.
“We’re frustrated with the reputation our comments have,” says new Startribune.com senior...
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WatchDid you guys catch Joe Mauer on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” last night?
Mauer, as usual, is endearingly awkward on camera.
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“The Republicans have figured it out. Their message is a basic value proposition:...”
– MinnPost Q & A with new DFL Chair Ken Martin
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Dayton's budget-balancing plan relies heavily on... →
Gov. Mark Dayton, clashing today with Republicans’ “no new taxes” mantra, proposed a budget that includes $4.1 billion in tax increases as the major method to close a projected $6.2 billion budget deficit for the new biennium.
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Sen. Klobuchar's (Winning) Taconite Tater Tot Hot...
whereabout:
Recipe: - Ground beef (1-1.5 lbs) - Cream of mushroom (1 can) - Cream of chicken (1 can) - Onions (1 small) - Garlic (couple cloves) - Salt - Pepper - Pepper jack cheese, shredded (8-12 ounces) - Tater tots (1 package)
Preparation 1. Brown ground beef, drain off fat. Sautee onions and garlic. 2. In a large bowl, mix together beef, onions, garlic, both cans of soup, salt and...
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