Eric the Blue
Mostly politics, sports, literature, arts reviews
Category: Politics
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Keeps happening, but I still feel startled to see a place I know well, including especially the people who work there, featured in national news spots. Here’s a segment from yesterday’s PBS News Hour on my place of employment, Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights, Minnesota: I’m eager to associate myself with Ms. Fultz and…
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Since there’s hardly anything more common, at least from atop a bar stool, or key board connected to a social media site, than the opinion that politicians are universally corrupt, ignorant, and ineffective, I’m going to drop in here a clip of a US senator performing his job well. For context, the Trump administration has…
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About a week ago, Trump said that the federal government should “take over”–“federalize”–voting procedures in 15 states. He didn’t say which 15, but probably not South Carolina or Idaho, right? They get the right results. He did name three cities that he thinks are “crooked”: Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit. These are in the “swing” states…
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I’m on a blood thinner, because I have a tendency to form blood clots–DVTs (for deep vein thrombosis) in the professional jargon of the white coats, which can be dangerous when hiking around in your circulatory system. The only danger of the blood thinner that scientists have warned me about concerns the increased possibility of…
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Don’t know anything about Bad Bunny, but based on his enemies, I’m beginning to look forward to the halftime show. I remember that the Speaker of the House, when Bad Bunny was first selected, opined that Lee Greenwood would have been a better choice. Maybe Lee wasn’t available, like there was a conflict with a…
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Daughters are with their mom for the weekend, but I got a text from my high school senior that makes me think my work is nearly done. I’m not saying other parents shouldn’t feel at least as proud. Just today, one of my fellow dads here in the Peoples Republic of Minneapolis posted the following…
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Reading emails addressed to Valley View Staff can be a bit of an emotional roller coaster these days, especially if those muscles have been atrophied by the accumulation of years augmented by Scandinavian heritage. We were informed a few days ago that a judge had ordered the release of our now world famous pre-k student…
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I confess I take a generally dim view of things, which inclines me to think there’s no justice in the world, but, on the other hand, look who’s inhaling even Fartcoin’s exhaust:
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Consecutive posts from the FB group, Columbia Heights Public Schools. Last night: This morning: Also, there is a measles outbreak at the detention center in Texas where four more of the district’s schoolchildren are being held.
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Journalist and author Garrett Graff has been looking into the crime rate among agents and officers of CBP (Customs and Border Protection). Some of his findings, as recently revealed in testimony before an Illinois state commission: Criminality is so rampant within CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every…
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