Year: 2009
It’s Been A Bad Year
My mother died in April, I moved in with my father for a few months to take care of him until I could find a nursing home, I moved him to the nursing home, I cleaned out his apartment, and I straightened out his finances. Now my father’s died too, and I just got back from… Read more
Scattershot 2009-08-24
Random shots around the web: This could cause a lot of trouble. The war against illegal immigration is apparently as stupid and cruel as the war on drugs. Bobby G. Frederick drinks the TLC kool-aid. So true. I do this, but with a shorter lag. [Thanks, Bobby. The error in your comment has been noted… Read more
The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Put on Patrol, Version 1.1
Nah. Updating doesn’t go quite far enough; I really should eat a little more crow. But just a little. Let’s try that again — and I’m going to leave the original up, for historical purposes. Bloggers — well, ones who care to do it right — don’t throw errors down the memory hole. Hence, Version… Read more
The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Bumbling Get Put on Patrol
Let’s start off by reviewing the key paragraph in our last episode: On April 16 of 2008, Sheriff Bob Fletcher and Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner filed a hundred-page petition (here’s Part 1; here’s Part 2) with District Judge Joanne Smith, requesting that the judge revoke what they called Wilson’s “conceal and carry permit”, and… Read more
Scattershot 2009-08-17
Random shots around the web: Motorola goes back to the brick with a mil spec cell phone. [It was kind of a rough week.] Read more