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I’ve never been much of a road warrior, but it did work out that once I had dinner in Salt Lake, slept at home in Minneapolis, had breakfast in Denver, and lunch in the French Quarter.

Um . . . https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-reverses-guidance-pausing-ice-raids-farms-hotels-restaurants-wapo-reports-2025-06-17/ Well, of course he will also reverse a change of course when opposing key constituencies object to his change of course. OK, I'm confusing myself at this point.

As of yesterday, the State Patrol was planning for 10,000 and the organizers were hoping for 40,000. The best estimates of today’s attendance seem to be about 25,000.

Historically, I haven’t been much for street protesting. Today’s political assassination here in Minnesota, however, put me over the edge. The State Patrol asked everybody to stay home from the No Kings event at the state capitol in Saint Paul because the gunman is still at large and left...

This may be one of the greatest suggestions I have seen on this forum. It's respectful, constructive, and plainly illustrates Harvey' point about having different priorities. Kudos.

If we're including not lift-served terrain, don't forget the Chic-Chocs.

In the long shadow of the famine, the Irish were packing up and leaving poverty, economic and political oppression including land ownership laws that prevented the vast majority from ever having much opportunity to get a leg up, and political instability and/or violence.

The published texts create that impression. Especially Hegseth's. Million dollar idea?: T-shirts that read: "Are we currently clean on OPSEC, Pete?"

Yesterday, the National Security Council’s spokesman, Brian Hughes, said this: “At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.” Today, from the NY Times: "Representative Don Bacon, Republican...

And now for something completely different. . . I’ll just stick with the facts, as acknowledged by the White House itself today: So the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the National Security Adviser, the Director of National Intelligence, the C.I.A. Director...

The U.S.A.'s vote on the resolution is shocking enough. The company the U.S. is now keeping is absolutely appalling. North Korea? Sudan? Belarus? Really? Note that even China and Iran abstained.

Day 1 The last previous storm cycle had dumped 70cm, but that was 10 days prior after barely any snow at all in January. On the other hand, it had been very cold, so untracked and sheltered snow was in still very good shape and totally right side up were it had not been wind affected. Jasper was...

That's never been quite true in late summer in some of the shallower, more protected parts of the lake, like Wisconsin's Apostle Islands. In other parts of the lake that were historically frigid year round, it has increasingly not been the case that the lake is too cold for tolerable swimming...

That's somewhat true most winters, but not all. For example, here's the satellite time lapse for 2013-2014 we've been discussing above: Several winters since I first moved here in the 80s, I've had the experience of standing at an overlook on or around the Superior Hiking Trail hundreds of...