Zach

Chuck Norris has passed away aged 86.

I’ve seen the videos of kids throwing snowballs at NYPD officers in Washington Square Park. Officers, like all city workers, have been out in a historic blizzard, keeping New Yorkers safe and cars moving. Treat them with respect. If anyone’s catching a snowball, it’s me.

Olympic curler and Minnesotan Rich Ruohonen: “what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear….we are playing for the people of Minnesota today.” 💜

Hard to think of an actress who was as consistently funny or made a greater impression on both my childhood and adult life than Catherine O'Hara. Another great one gone. RIP.

Why I left Minnesota: The taxes, the fraud, the fraud, the fraud. The fact that every single conversation became political and having a centrist or questioning point of view meant being screamed at, shunned and alienated - everywhere. Neighborhood, coffeeshops, business meetings, yoga classes. The crime that everyone said wasn't happening. The high prices. The deterioration of once-great systems: public education, public libraries, public parks. The graft in every direction. The road rage. The corrupt elected officials. The frequent newsworthy murders born of all the division and hatred and politicking. The Marxist trans activism culture that squashed and exploited real living LGBT individuals, subsuming them into a dystopian cause. The dirty, ripped-up streets; government agencies that don't do their jobs; ridiculously insecure information systems at government and university levels that are constantly being hacked. The overpayment of social service dollars to buy votes. Oh, and the ballot harvesting which is definitely going on at more-than-Romanian-level rates. The superiority of the brahmin public sector set: the millionaires who work for state, city and university. The absolutely worthless and captured newspaper of record that has ignored some of the biggest stories in the nation (world?) because of their political ties. The fact that they took my home - which was beautiful and warm and civil - and made it into a proto-socialist experiment that oppresses everyone except the brahmins. Tim Walz. Keith Ellison. Ilhan Omar. The slavish Republicans who pretend to oppose them but really suck from the same trough. Property tax levies. Inoperable light rail that cost billions. January and February - dim, hard, and cold.

How much louder to we have to shout? WAKE UP, MINNESOTA!!!