Secrets of the City

as welcome as this is, the strib probably put the final nail in its own coffin when it endorsed coleman and completed its transition into a right-wing rag just as the tide across the country was turning the other way. I don’t think angry suburban racists are a big enough market to keep them chugging along.

Not to mention the great assortment of local online news sources now, staffed mostly by the talented people they laid off. Hmm.

Nice to see wayno taking part in the new tone in Washington by referring to Norm Coleman supporters as white suburban racists. Awesome.

Anywho, I like these choices. John Tevlin is great, and I enjoy reading Gail’s stuff… should be a nice change.

fuck ‘a new tone in washington.’ republicans are being as obstructionist and ridiculous as ever. they invited our favourite moron “JOE THE PLUMBER” to their weekly strategery meeting this week. do they really expect anyone to take them seriously?

oh, and they’re insisting on more tax cuts and less government spending in the stimulus bill, despite the fact every economist worth their salt has said that government spending is way more effective for job creation. not to mention the fact that their policy of cutting government spending on everything but WAR whilst lowering taxes for the rich seemed to really help the economy before, right?

and norm coleman is a scummy politician who took payoffs from supporters and had his nose buried so far up bush’s ass I’m sure he can still taste his taint. I can’t imagine anyone with any sense supporting him, even if the alternative was the not-so-awesome franken. I’d pick fucking pauly shore over coleman any day of the week.

Let’s not forget, coleman had to take time out of attending his obstructionist excuse for an election contest trial to speak at an anti-abortion rally, so people could get all worked up and ram their SUVs into family-planning clinics.

Rosenblum’s column on the sex business and the Larry Flynt request for a bailout showed a remarkable lack of a sense of humor. I hope she works on that, since a sense of humor is a requirement for a metro columnist, IMO.

Tevlin will be good. He’s sorta like the Bob Collins of the Star Tribune, perhaps a little more left-leaning.

Wasn’t Flynt just being satirical when he made that “request?”

“OMG! Our market is dying because no one buys our DVDs anymore! There’s too much free pr0n online! You need to bail us out … just like the auto companies want you to do.”

Wasn’t Flynt just being satirical when he made that “request?”

That’s what I thought. Apparently not everyone recognized it as such.

KERSTEN’S GONE, KERSTEN’S GONE, KERSTEN’S GONE, KERSTEN’S GONE, KERSTEN’S GOOOOOOONNNNNEEEE!

I’m sorry, what were we talking about again?

That rag needs The Rat.

shows the new columnists as having a solid grounding in journalism and no established partisan agenda.

ugh.  read http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/37944539.html?page=2&c=y and tell me rosenblaum isn’t partisan.  she sounds like a swooning teenager.

She wouldn’t be the first.

COLEMAN’S GONE, COLEMAN’S GONE, COLEMAN’S GONE, COLEMAN’S GONE, COLEMAN’S GOOOOOOONNNNNEEEE!

I’m sorry, what were we talking about again?

Norm Coleman? It’s official then?

Franken and Coleman. Meh. I like this guys idea.