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It’s Been A Bad Year

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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 visiting his brother and sister and taking his ashes back to where he grew up in Kentucky. I guess I … [Read more...] about It’s Been A Bad Year

The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Put on Patrol, Version 1.1

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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 1.1. Let's start off by reviewing the key paragraph in our last episode: On April … [Read more...] about The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Put on Patrol, Version 1.1

The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Bumbling Get Put on Patrol

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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 documenting, in great detail, each and … [Read more...] about The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Bumbling Get Put on Patrol