Secrets of the City

If I have to read one more story about a teacher molesting a student, I’m going to be sick. So let’s find something light and amusing to talk about.

Oooo, wait… here’s something I should have put up a day or two ago.

The Vikings play the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Predictions?

Here’s a game preview from Vikings Gab.

“The Vikings will dominate this game as the Seahawk’s will provide little more than a few speed bumps as resistance.  Home field advantage, nearly at full health, and superior talent spells a victory for the Vikings.”

Seems like a no-brainer. Put money on it.

As for the home field advantage, however, looks like it’s going to be the Metrodome for a while still — which the Vikings aren’t very happy about. The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission approved a plan to force them to extend their Metrodome lease by two years.

A White Bear Lake man pulled his ninth-grade daughter out of school this week to protect her from racial threats. Over the past three weeks the young African-American girl “has been called a racial epithet on a White Bear Lake school bus, been stared at menacingly in a North Campus classroom, and had her life threatened by a weapon-wielding student.” A police report shows that a juvenile from the school was arrested on Wednesday and put into juvenile detention, but the school has not confirmed this.

Meanwhile, between 6 and 16 officers were patrolling the halls of Owatonna High School this week after a fight broke out between white and Somali students. Tension had been building for a couple of weeks, “stemming from a student’s inflammatory paper alleging Somali privilege that was posted on a school blog.”

And in St. Paul, the final candidate for Saint Paul Public Schools superintendent was met with a protest of about 30 high school students yesterday, claiming that North Branch superintendent Deborah Henton “was not supportive of minorities.”

A well-written account from the University of Minnesota newspaper of a bus ride in the Twin Cities. The reporter definitely didn’t seek out any normal people, so take it with a grain of salt.

MinnPost writer Michael Bonafield sat down with Strib columnist Katherine Kersten for a two-hour interview, and here’s the first of a two-part Q&A piece, in which Kersten discusses “same-sex marriage, liberal rage, and life at the Star Tribune.”

Her argument against same-sex marriage, as we saw early last week, lies strictly on the grounds that marriage is for procreation and, ultimately, for the perpetuation of society and civilization.

The truth is, historically marriage as an institution was more about money and power. It was an economic arrangement. Women were commodities, sold in marriage to the highest bidder in order to secure wealth and strengthen family bonds.

In Ancient Greece a woman whose father died without male heirs was often forced to marry her nearest male relative. So much for Kersten’s theory that same-sex marriage will lead to incestuous marriage as well. Already been done.

Anyhow, if Kersten really believes that marriage should be based strictly on procreation, then she’s probably in favor of annulment based on lack of conception, and she’s likely a huge fan of Henry VIII.

Or maybe she’s just fanning the fires to secure her position as “lightening rod of liberal rage” — a position she claims to enjoy immensely.