Click To Play One of Lake Bled, Slovenia’s claims to fame is their Bled Cake: a tasty cream cake with a crusty top. The trick to eating this cake is to chip the top layer into bite-sized chunks so it can be consumed along with the creamy layers below.
My Joe 6-Pack understanding of congressional earmarks goes something like this: Every member of congress is alloted a certain amount of federal funding that they can direct to projects of their choice without much congressional oversight, such as a vote specifically on the funding choices. This can be a good thing, since Keith Ellison probably [...]
My Capital One credit card’s online account management service includes a customer service feature called, “Send us a Secure Message” that sounded like the perfect way to communicate with the credit card company before traveling to Uruguay and Argentina. While it isn’t required, I have run into issues in the past with credit cards when [...]
Dear Future Generations. In the 2000′s, we had a president from Texas who’s international crime fighting policy was basically this: 1. Offer bounties to people living in poverty who are willing to turn in other 3rd world living humans in exchange for cash. 2. Torture the captives to find out if they actually know anything. [...]
First Crate & Barrel, now this: Williams-Sonoma in IDS to close Williams-Sonoma, Inc. in Minneapolis’s IDS Center is slated to close its doors Jan. 13. San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM), a retailer of specialty home products, is in the process a clearance sale. Store employees said that the decision to move was prompted by a [...]
I swear to you, if I ever get the chance to introduce Trent Lott to an audience – not all that likely, I know – I’m going to borrow my introductory remarks from The Beast: Old school Dixiecrat segregationist who switched parties along with Strom Thurmond back when Democrats decided to be nicer to black [...]
The Minneapolis Issues List has an interesting discussion about prostitution on Lake Street. Apparently, there was a recent bust at a “health club” at 515 E. Lake Street. Wizard Marks has some background on the history of prostitution along East Lake near 35W in the thread. Tom Madden’s post was most interesting to me. His [...]
Dear Palm, A few months ago, I gave your Palm backup service a try where I was able to sync my Treo’s information to your servers over the phone’s Internet connection. This seemed like a pretty slick idea at the time since I could back up my phone from anywhere I can receive a cell [...]
If you treat jailed teenage criminals like their human, they just may start acting like humans. Or, as The Other Mike, who sent this over, put it: “Son of a gun…the system can work….” Mo. tries new approach on teen offenders The ratio of staff to kids is low: one-to-five. Wards, referred to as “clients,” [...]
I couldn’t agree more with Amadeus’ assessment of what you can expect to find on the brunch menus of “fancy restaurants”: I think there are strict rules when it comes to what can be offered. According to “The Fancy Restaurant Brunch Gestapo”, there will be the following items: 1) French toast with some sort of [...]
