Just a hodgepodge of things I like, mostly with a local Minnesota twist: Twins baseball, photography, weather, transit, technology, architecture, film, humor, and anything else that tickles my fancy.I am smitten enough with cars and maps that they both get their very own tumblogs.
Word cloud created using the transcript of President Obama’s State of the Union address.
Amy Koch, former MN Senate majority leader, who left her leadership post after revelations of a personal relationship with a staff member, responding to criticism that she was a hypocrite when she voted to place on the ballot next November an amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. (via MinnPost)
Give me a break!
Ricky Rubio ties game, Kevin Love wins game (by pennyccwai)
Members of Congress’s Positions on SOPA/PIPA Jan 18th vs. Jan 19th
(via MPR News Cut)
A cold, but beautiful morning in Mpls.
Gingrich Lacks Moral Character to Be President, Ex-Wife Says
In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an “open marriage” arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.
She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich.
“And I just stared at him and he said, ‘Callista doesn’t care what I do,’” Marianne Gingrich told ABC News. “He wanted an open marriage and I refused.”
Marianne described her “shock” at Gingrich’s behavior, including how she says she learned he conducted his affair with Callista “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington.”
“He always called me at night,” she recalled, “and always ended with ‘I love you.’ Well, she was listening.”
All this happened, she said, during the same time Gingrich condemned President Bill Clinton for his lack of moral leadership. (via timekiller-s)
Madison - Democrats seeking to recall Gov. Scott Walker filed more than a million signatures Tuesday, virtually guaranteeing a historic recall election against him later this year. It would mark the first gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin history and only the third one in U.S. history.
Organizers Tuesday also handed in 845,000 recall signatures against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, as well as recall petitions against four GOP state senators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau.
The sheer number of signatures being filed against Walker - nearly as many as the total votes cast for the governor in November 2010 and about twice as many as those needed to trigger a recall election - ensure the election will be held, said officials with the state Democratic Party and United Wisconsin, the group that launched the Walker recall. (via JSOnline)
