Comments on: Quintessential Mpls Blog?

By: honeybun

honeybun — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:02:16 +0000

hey, thanks for posting that video, chuck.

By: cristina

cristina — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:31:33 +0000

Nay… not that. No truth in that one, I’m glad to say.

By: matt9000

matt9000 — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:09:06 +0000

“Hmmm…. Interesting possibility. Not exactly right, but there’s always a bit of truth in everything.”

Not a dad of christina. A child of cristina’s brain.

By: cristina

cristina — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:31:18 +0000

Are you kidding me? This is the land of 10,000 clinical definitions…

By: bobby_b

bobby_b — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:18:38 +0000

A. If people could make rational and efficient financial choices, they wouldn't be poor. To make that complaint about this guy is like saying if starving people would just eat, they wouldn't . . . you know . . . starve.

B. Bigger issue: what is it that is "quintessentially Minnesotan" about being poor and depressed? (I mean, aside from the impression the Star Tribune wants to give us about all of our fellow 'sotans?)

By: cristina

cristina — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:28:27 +0000

I think you’ve got it there, Jerad. Exactly! In the end we each do whatever we need to just to feel human. Judge it if you must, but bad choice or not, sometimes it’s all we’ve got…

By: Tib

Tib — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:22:38 +0000

he wants his blog to encourage other people to get help for depression the disease but I wonder why he doesn’t seem to be getting help for his own? Or maybe writing the blog is his cry for help? But he seems so “out” about being depressed, it’s sad that his friends or family don’t intervene.

I think he’s funny, though I don’t like jokes about setting the cat on fire. I feel quite sorry for the cat, who has no choice over whether or not she gets to eat that day.

By: compubox

compubox — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:20:39 +0000

yeah, yeah…i know all about it SSL. i’m just saying sounds like he spends money like a broke college kid, not someone mired in abject poverty…and therefore i don’t believe his story. ehh, i don’t really care, actually.

By: Jerad

Jerad — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:12:18 +0000

In addition, if he’s self-confessed depressed and not treating the illness then his spending decisions can’t be held to the bar of “makes sense to me.” If going to the bar and buying a beer to sip will be the one thing that makes you feel like a member of society this week, then the $3.00 will be worth it.

You can call it stupid and say the money should be saved for a haircut, bus fare, gas, or an interview suit, yes. However it is ignorance of depression and poverty to call that consumer decision proof of wealth.

By: mhansen

mhansen — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:37:58 +0000

Yeah, I agree with Social Service Lady . In my experience with certain lower income people, part of why they are lower income is that they do not know how to manage money or save. They live for today, and many of them are very proud of that. Some come from generations of financial struggle and were never taught to save and learn to hold off on wants for needs.