Secrets of the City

WARNING: The True North link goes to a Craig Westover op/ed. Way worse than a Ric Roll, IMHO.

How is it you keep missing Frankens tax troubles in this roundup?

Well, those unpaid parking tickets certainly ended Keith Ellison’s bid for Congress, didn’t they?

Oh, wait…

Easy — Franken’s tax troubles are covered ad nauseum. And the only real discussion they’d engender goes roughly as follows:

“Franken is a tax cheat! Norm Coleman will wipe the floor with him!”
“No way, Al Franken is way better than Norm. He’s not a Bush sycophant and he actually bangs his own wife!”
“Shut up. Liberals are stupid. Poor people suck.”
“Conservatives are mean and rich people control everything. It’s not fair.”
“Life isn’t fair. You should carry a gun, then you won’t have to worry about all the poor people and Islamo-Fascists who want to break into your house.”
“No way! Islamo-Fascists are people too, and they just need love and respect. Not like Nazis. Nazis are bad.”

It’d continue like that for about 100 or so comments, then someone will bring up bacon.

I like the self promotion. Also, what’s with MNspeak linking to the horrible Brodkorb sloppy hack link yesterday but yet when every political news source and blog today is talking about Franken clearing up all the tax questions there’s no link to any of it? Yeah, I’m a Franken supporter but I still think it’s a bit weird.

richg-

Well why don’t you do us the favor and cut through the BS and sum up the facts in a paragraph and close it up?

Won’t someone please think of bacony sex ed?

I wonder why people in this day and age still get upset about comprehensive sex-ed? Show me a parent willing to talk frankly to their kid about sex and I’d probably fall over dead.

aliecat: w/ humor. my dad chuckled his way thru a condom-covered banana, no joke.

funny/embarrassing but um, … enlightening?

There’s a separate thread for Franken’s tax troubles.

My parents were very upfront with me about sex ed, and, at 31, I’m still not pregnant!!! Of course, now they may begining to wonder if I will ever have a child, but that’s beside the point.

haha! Seriously, if we get rid of sex-ed, what class would the assistant football coach teach after the season is done?

KC. here is a transcript of the sex talk that I got from my parents:

Dad: Are you still a virgin?
Me: Yes.
Dad: Way to go! (high fives me)

Mom: Is there anything you’d like to know about sex?
Me: Uh, no, I think I’ve got it figured out.
Mom: WHAT!
Me: Dude, we’ve had sex ed in school since I was in 4th grade!

Keep in mind this all took place when I was 18 and packing up my car to leave for collge.

Honestly Aaron, with everyone and their mother covering it, I didn’t think it was worth arguing about on here. But, I’ve summarized it as requested in the separate thread.

alie…here’s my sex-ed pep talk from dad when I was 14:

Dad: do you know about the birds and bees and stuff like that as it pertains to sex between a man and a woman?
Me: yes. duh.
Dad: ok. good. I’m gonna go read a book now.

My names not Aaron, but its a nice enough name – thanks.

Aaron is s4xton, 108.

Yes indeed, 108. I already responded to you. Though I should’ve added Max’s usual caveat — if you want to talk about it, post it.

I would add “you lazy bastards” to the end of that phrase though.

You can add “you lazy bastards” to the end of practically every sentence. Such as…Talk to your own damn kids about sex so we can let the school focus on things like math, reading and science, you lazy bastards. Or…don’t leave the Vanity Fair photoshoot without making sure they don’t strip your 15yo daughter naked, you achy breaky lazy bastards. You get the drift, you lazy bastards.

Or, “figure out a budget compromise, you lazy bastards.”

My point exactly!

Or stop self linking in the post header, you lazy bastards.

That’s not lazy, JACC. That’s being a self-promotional whore. Very different adjectives.

It takes a lot of work to be a self-promotional whore. Not a job for the lazy.

It’s lazy. You could have posted the Rake stories here as well. I stand by my adjective and would ask that you don’t tempt me to use another.

And what other adjectives might you have, JACC?