EXPENSIVE GAS KICKING THE ASS OF THE HUGE PLEASURE BOAT CROWD [STRIB] »» (7/6/08, 10:54 PM)
expensive gas kicking the ass of the huge pleasure boat crowd [strib] In related news, sailing remains as cost effective ever. Until you need to buy something for your sailboat, obviously, because like everything for a sailboat costs like 1000 times more than you think it will. >»»

EDINA PARADE : THE SILENCE WAS DEAFENING »» (7/6/08, 10:48 PM)
Check it out! It's Senator Amy Klobuchar and family walking and waving their way down 50th Street in the Edina 4th of July Parade! Look how happy she is. It's because of all the applause, duh. And for sure there was plenty of it. And I'll get back to that, but first I've gotta place a call to the Fashion Industry Lobby and suggest that if they want to get in with the Senator, they should swing by her office and drop off a couple of car-loads of threads for her husband. Seriously, is he for real with the pleated shorts and the tucked in t-shirt and the clownish blown-out-socks-and-dirty-tennis-shoes combo? Did the Senator pull him in from mowing the lawn to go to the parade? Doesn't this dude probably have to roll black tie dinners like 3 times a week? Washington fat cat style? He probably has 6 tuxedos, right? But no socks? I mean I get it, he's an everyman. But even us everymen know that if we're ma>»»