Osler's Razor

  We've never haiku'd about Bruce Springsteen before, so this is the time. It can be about the song/video above, or anything else yo...

  Not long ago, I posted about 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was detained and sent to Texas from his home here in Minnesota. His blue bu...

  Yesterday I heard a remarkable story from the Dean of the University of Minnesota school of music. He lives in South Minneapolis, the part...

  How Can I Help? Over the past few weeks, many people from outside of Minnesota have asked me how they can help. Below is my list of opport...

  We had a great batch of haiku this week on the ambiguous topic of winter weather! There was this from CraigA: Bracing for big storm: Shove...

  Yesterday I was getting ready to go to the gym and listening to reports about the killing of Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, by federal agents wh...

  Yesterday was the coldest one I can remember in Minnesota as it got down to -23 and no higher than -8. And that is COLD, real hair-freezin...

  Winter is coming hard all over the country. It is well below zero here, which should keep the ICE out, ironically. But winter here is a go...

  Here in Minneapolis, things are looking pretty bleak. Restaurants are closing, kids are staying home from school, and residents, regardles...

  On Wednesdays, I am profiling people that give us hope in these troubling times. Back in 2022 when things seemed relatively boring, I knew...

  Last night's championship D1 football game was held at Miami's home field-- the Orange Bowl-- but it sure looked like an Indiana h...

  Usually I use Mondays to recap the haiku from the previous Friday. There were some great ones last week, and I invite you to go back and r...

  Jesus lived in a place that was occupied by a military force from a far-away capital, which oppressed and controlled the people the with a...

 

  One of the best things in my life is the relationship with my brother and sister, who constantly inspire me. We're different from each...

  Things have been pretty weird in Minnesota lately. And, of course, that summoned former governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura, who i...

  In this second edition of Wednesday profiles of people who give us hope, I lift up the six people who resigned this week from the U.S. Att...

  Key line: "The Golden Globe for best video editing goes to... The Justice Department..."

  It was good to hear from old friends on a cold night. Welcome back to Sleepy Walleye: In the great white north A moose nibbles willow twig...

  Yesterday I went to a protest gathering here in Minneapolis. It's been a hard week in the wake of Renee Good's death at the hands ...