A local tax watchdog group called the Freedom Fund of Minnesota cherry picked what they consider to be the most wasteful uses of government earmarks to create a list that can be found here (via MDE). Based on what didn’t make their top-10 list, it seems like programs designed to help battered women, victims of [...]
This past Saturday night, I was hanging out with Paul Merrill, talking about politics, sex, and religion, when Paul asked me if I ever receive any strange or harrassing phone calls from people who’ve read The Deets. He noticed that I publish my cell phone number on this site along with the qualifier “Use it. [...]
Update: Bob Collins has posted an explanation for what happened to his account in the comments here. Looks like some local media folks may have been a bit too social on Twitter yesterday regarding the future of TheUptake at the state capitol based on the scrubbing of Tweets I’m seeing today. For example, TPT’s Mary [...]
One of the popular “The Uptake is Biased” talking points recently has revolved around this tweet from Uptake intern, Erin Maye: Luke Hellier has referred to that tweet at least three times in blog posts as an example of political bias by Maye. Of course, anyone who’s ever done any video editing has surely made [...]
Since this question of Uptake bias was raised by Luke Hellier at Minnesota Democrats Exposed, let’s take a look at what he’s been up to lately to get a feel for what bias really looks like. Hellier recently posted a story on Minnesota Democrats Exposed where he republished what he thought (or pretended) was a [...]
Luke Hellier over at Minnesota Democrats Exposed raised an interesting question recently on the Minnesota GOP’s clearly biased, often inaccurate, and sometimes just downright wrong, blog. He said: Does anyone actually believe the Uptake is objective? The thing that makes this question interesting to me is that it was posed by such a non-credible source. [...]
I’m a huge fan of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service where Amazon has created a platform that allows for simple contracting of web based work on a task by task basis. For those on you not familiar with the service, it allows people to upload work they’d like done that’s better done by humans than computers [...]
One thing the Google Powermeter taught me over time was that our biggest energy gain would come through upgrading our refrigerator to a more efficient model. Our old one worked fine, but used more energy than a 2010 model of the same size and specs does. We got around to upgrading ours after Carly donated [...]
I’m not sayin’ that serving beer at Gopher football games is inevitable. I’m just sayin’ that I snapped this shot of pre-installed beer taps in the stadium last fall: This was on the 3rd floor in the DQ Club Room. This is only accessible by people in box seats, as I understand it, so it’s [...]
Aaron recently spent a night at the Hilton LAX on his way back from Honolulu and noticed some TP that doesn’t appear to be up to Conrad Hilton’s standards: Forget the fold for a second. Did they really put an unwrapped roll of TP on a spool? At a Hilton? Back to the fold, it [...]
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