Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, jblaque and Greg Ketter at DreamHaven

Breakfast

Duck pho

Among School Children

William Butler Yeats


Among School Children

I

I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
The children learn to cipher and to sing,
To study reading-books and histories,
To cut and sew, be neat in everything
In the best modern way - the children's eyes
In momentary wonder stare upon
A sixty-year-old smiling public man.

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It ain't just Rudy...

Mary Matalin has the same virus: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/the-malleability-of-history/

Their history changes before our eyes!

One o' Mpls Finest

Was subsiding his city police salary with a wee little bit o' bank robbery, and stashing the cash in his police locker. I'm going to guess the guy ain't the Einstein o' bank robbers, nor the Bonnie or Clyde. The first clue I had about it was the Nixle.com email blast which mumbled on about good cops and bad cops and how even a bad cop gets arrested by the good cop. Mind you, it did not have a lotta details, nor did it have the terse details I would expect from an email blast service, or at least one that was trying to do more than just cover its ass. I think I've whinged once or twice before about how they offer the service as a community involvement aid when you sign up, and then shortly afterwards, you discover it's the junior Goebbels propaganda and PR service of the Police Chief and Hennepin County Sheriff.

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