Secrets of the City

Am I the only one who finds it bizarre that no one mentioned the newly released info on the bridge collapse?

I had a hard time comprehending 191 tons until I read that it is the equivillent of about two fully-loaded jet planes sitting on the bridge.

I both noticed the story richg and I noticed that no one had commented on it.

I have a small theory:

I might be projecting my own situation on this, but something about the times seems to be leading me away from hard news. I’m not sure if it’s the weather or the economy or the war or my own work or a mixture of it all, but I swear I’m having a harder time digesting hard news. I wake up, pour myself some coffee, and read the sports section and then do the crossword.

I’m guessing that our collective brain hurts. The gravity of the current news is such that there is an ennui that sort of settles in. Keep in mind I’m a news/politics/media junkie, so it’s not like I’m coming entirely from a Family Circus background.

So if you look at MNSPeak, it’s lots of pizza, hearty cooking, and other such fluff. Maybe once this winter of discontent subsides we’ll be ready to buckle down.

As for me, I’m going to go watch Bravo now.

I’ve made the bridge news its own post. That’s a lot of tonnage.

Outside of the new bridge info, the biggest political story in town is Lori Swanson and the stream of allegations about unethical lawyering and union busting that are coming from current and former assistant AGs in her office. Eric Black OWNS this story over at MinnPost, and MPR has been covering it, too – but for some reason, the tender flowers at the Strib’s shrinking political desk either are embittered to have been scooped by smaller outfits, or just don’t think that ethical misconduct by a DFL AG is important.

But this story IS important, and it’d be nice if mnspeak would highlight it. Some of the year’s best politcal reporting – really impressive deep sourcing by Black – has been done in regard to it.

Our clean school bus story ean on Jason’s Station last night.

Note: the words ethanol and smoking are not mentioned in story.

I is fiv yers old today. Pleeze send mor Marines. Otters all broken an messy. Send new Marines! Send now!!!