Rick Perry and the Politics of Resentment - The Atlantic

Rick Perry and the Politics of Resentment - The Atlantic

Rick Perry's Complaint

Telling Christians that they are victims and oppressed and under some sort of ill-defined and nonexistent threat is apparently the way that Rick Perry hopes to salvage the wreckage of his Presidential campaign and thus, his political career. Piety is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and while I don’t have any direct evidence to offer that Perry is a scoundrel, I find his appeal to piety now that his back is up against the wall to be most unappealing. More

If I Wuz President

If I Were President
by JASON KUZNICKI on DECEMBER 8, 2011
If I were president, I would start with a round of mass imprisonments. Moar

City Hall Wi-Fi put on hold as Minneapolis tweaks city budget

By Karen Boros | Published Thu, Dec 8 2011 9:09 am
If your laptop doesn’t work at Minneapolis City Hall, you can blame the City Council.
The money to bring Wi-Fi to every nook and cranny of the building has been diverted to fund an auditor and restore some proposed cuts to the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network. Link

Open Season Again?

Two Dead in Shooting on Virginia Tech Campus
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and J. DAVID GOODMAN
Two people, including a police officer, have been killed in a shooting on Thursday afternoon on the campus of Virginia Tech, the scene of a 2007 massacre in which 33 people died, university officials said. Moar

Johnny Michaels in Minneapolis?

An elixir called the Mount Vernon at PDT, whose head bartender has written a recipe book for those trying to make high-end cocktails at home.
By JEFF GORDINIER
Published: December 6, 2011
IT was while my station wagon sat stuck behind a dump truck as I inched across Westchester County trying to find a bottle of Italian chestnut honey distillate that I realized I was probably not cut out for this mixology thing. I had the passion, to be sure, even if my after-work bartending adventures only sporadically get beyond the pour-bourbon-on-top-of-ice stage. And the mission had seemed simple enough. The idea was to attempt to make a few recipes from the most buzzed-about cocktail guide in the country, “The PDT Cocktail Book” (Sterling Epicure; $24.95) by Jim Meehan. More

Trader Joe's down the block?

Trader Joe's is close to finalizing a deal for a store on the corner of 27th Street and Lyndale Avenue in Lyn-Lake, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. More

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PDT Cocktail Book