Eric the Blue

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Category: Politics

  • Proud parents

    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…

  • Scandinavian male edges toward an emotion (anger? sorrow?)

    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…

  • In the category of, “Maybe there is a God”

    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:

  • United States of Dystopia

    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.

  • Get jailed, jump bail, join DHS if you fail

    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…

  • Dystopic

    One day a few weeks ago I was dining in the school lunchroom when a kid a table over suddenly began vomiting just as a first grade teacher was striding into the room to collect her class. She veered from her original course and, as she’d already been moving, arrived at the scene of the…

  • Cruelty is the point

    A picture of the 5-year-old Valley View student being detained by ICE Tuesday afternoon after school. According to our superintendent, the family has an open asylum case with a “no deport” order. Nevertheless, the pre-k student is “being held at a detention center in Texas.” A report by the local CBS affiliate, here. And Sahan…

  • Further review

    Regarding the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, it’s clear that people are going to believe (or say that they believe) whatever it pleases them to believe. It seems a short step from there to the claim that the shooting is essentially a “Rorschach Test” and that objective truth concerning the event doesn’t exist: some…

  • “People say I have a bad job, but I get to carry a gun and tell them what to do.”

    At first glance, I thought the phone in her right hand was a cigarette, which is about the only thing that could have made for a more indelible image: like Pam Grier contemplating the dumb white cops in Jackie Brown. Unless someone is completely cropped out, I think there are seven of them. Note that…

  • Current events in south Minneapolis

    Probably it would be prudent for me to stay off of social media when events in my stomping grounds are the lead story in international news reports, and not for the first time in recent memory. But being a boomer, I occasionally peruse what my kids derisively refer to as BoomerBook, and unfortunately cannot give…