Inessentials

I’m not sure if I can do it.
I’ve been following the political conventions fairly closely these last couple weeks. I’ve watched the speeches. I’ve read analyses. I’ve tried to figure out what was truth, what was spin, and what was flat-out lying. That’s meant I’ve given a lot of my attention and mental energy over [...]

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I can’t begin to describe how affecting this image is:

That’s the historic Mickey’s Diner in downtown St. Paul, MN - an icon so beloved and so representative of Minnesota’s vision of itself that it was the setting for the closing scene in Robert Altman’s Prairie Home Companion, written by hometown hero Garrison Keillor. The diner [...]

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