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What Will Minnesota Republicans Do With Their Party?
Tony Sutton’s resignation, the exodus of Michael Brodkorb and the impending financial problems of the Minnesota Republican party provides grassroots activists with a once in a lifetime opportunity to take their party back from monied ...
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Why Libertarians and Republicans Should Support The Occupy Wall Street Movement
The Occupy Wall Street movement began about a month ago with a few dozen protestors. Now there are hundreds of thousands –if not millions–of supporters all across North America, and the movement shows no sign ...
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12 Days In, Thoughts on Google+
I received my Google+ invite from a generous facebook friend on June 28th. Since then I’ve been trying to figure out if the new social media platform is a real contender to Facebook or another ...
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A Story About Shit That Happened When I Was a Kid
When I was in my twenties, I thought I wanted to be a writer. I started off writing about things that never happened to me and wrote myself into overly detailed, and banal circumstances that ...
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CAGE Board Member Bridget Sutton Emails to MNGOP Members
On Saturday night, Minnesota Republican Party chairman Tony Sutton succumbed to grass roots pressure demanding that he resign his board membership at Citizens Against Gambling Expansion also known as CAGE. Tony’s resignation came within days ...
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Osama Bin Laden, So Now What?
Almost a full decade after the September 11th attacks, President Obama has announced that American forces killed Osama BinLaden in Pakistan. According to news sources and social media reports, both Ground Zero and the White ...
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Coming Up For Air
I drove out to Eagan last weekend to see my parents. I was a nice day, so I cruised around with the top down and decided to drive through the old neighborhood where we lived ...
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The World Is Our ____
Over the past few weeks I’ve taken a small break from writing the novel. I had to spend some time on projects for work and tinkering with a short story, “The Trees in Russia”, which ...
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The Trees in Russia
A barn swallow smacked into the pane of picture window glass with a thud. We were walking out of the cafeteria when the bird flew into the window. Big Sasha and Little Sasha looked at ...
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The Bee’s Knees
Britt and I have decided to become “Backyard Beekeepers”. Pursuing this new hobby has been taken up the last several weeks of free time for me, so I haven’t been able to spend as much ...