Here’s their latest headline: Here’s a map of where it happened: According to Google Maps, it takes 16 minutes to drive from the South Minneapolis where the murder took place to the other end of South Minneapolis. Does anyone from KARE 11 actually live in Minneapolis? Spend time in Minneapolis? Do they realize how absurd [...]
Dear Seward Democrats, Stop stealing Republican lawn signs. You’re acting almost as stupid as some of Republican candidate Erik Paulsen’s supporters, including Michael Brodkorb, who runs stake-outs at suburban Perkins locations, then harasses people when they lawfully removing signs from public property. Political hostility in Seward Hoffman took over Gabrick’s role so Gabrick could address [...]
You cant make this stuff up. Yellow Pages company, DexKnows.com, is paying people to write nice things about them on blogs. Oh, and it gets better. YP industry consultant, Ken Clark then takes the payola and blogs about it on one of his industry blogs, where he claims the paid posts are “actual experiences.” I [...]
I was recently perusing a blog called “THE Facts on Print Yellow Pages” when I stumbled across a post about Minneapolis pizza. Being a Minneapolis blog writer, resident, and a big fan of Pizza, I checked out what this site had to say about this very important topic (to me, at least): I clicked through [...]
Photo by Brian Shekleton That’s me in a kayak in the middle of the Mississippi River just downstream of the Upper St Anthony Falls and the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis. A group of locals did a trip down the river from Boom Island Park to Hidden Falls on Sunday. Good times. A few minutes [...]
Jim Norton and Taylor Carik were kind enough to invite me onto their radio show to discuss the Yellow Pages Industry’s phone book spam policy that led to my trip to Idearc’s Eagan Campus to return an unsolicited phone book to their plastic putting green. Click on the link above for a variety of listening [...]
Is there really such a thing as “clean coal?” According to Appalachai historian, Jeff Biggers, there is not: ‘Clean’ Coal? Don’t Try to Shovel That. Clean coal: Never was there an oxymoron more insidious, or more dangerous to our public health. Invoked as often by the Democratic presidential candidates as by the Republicans and by [...]
I don’t like it when KARE 11 says that people are being robbed at gunpoint in South Minneapolis, then fails to describe where in South Minneapolis the robberies are happening for seven paragraphs. Here’s a map of South Minneapolis with the area KARE 11 took 7 paragraphs to describe: The entire map covers an area [...]
This just in from Greg Swan, who’s out in Las Vegas for the Blogworld conference: You can tell a lot about a hotel based on their TP folding. Having stayed in that particular property before, I can say that this photo is an accurate representation of the Las Vegas Hilton’s overall quality.
