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Hamline University: from "Is Hamline University a place where meatpackers are trained?" to "national disgrace" in a month.

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Paul Vallas is Chicago's Harold Stassen (ask your granddad).

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Your comments on forever stamps in ‘91... too cynically keen on economics to be labeled a democrat but not sleazy enough to be in camp with current republicans. What gives???

And why is your deep & wide offering 20x longer than Kasso’s yet the same price?

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"If you ever want to avoid seeing me, just stand on the sidewalk and hold a clipboard. "

That person has had a lot of encounters with Pat Quinn.

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Can it really be that the bicycle salesperson thought that the (no longer a store patron, presumably) bicycle buyer was gendering the bicycle, rather than describing a bicycle more likely to be bought by a female? I've been aware of the "step through" descriptor for a while, and understand its genesis, but the salesperson was being ridiculous. (Many male cyclists are older, and have a more difficult time swinging their legs over a "boy's bike" crossbar, and the industry wanted a term for a "girl's bike" that would harm their fragile male egos . . . .)

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In the Hamline story you wrote that "this off-with-their-heads attitude toward missteps is unbecoming." And then in the bicycle story you wrote that a worker who issued a tongue-lashing "should be fired." I assume the first judgment was serious and the second was a bit of humorous self-referential overstatement. Nice writing!

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No, not exactly front page news, I agree, but cringeworthy?? Why?

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Without having the employee/management roster from 2016, or even now, the Tribs flip flop isn't all that big a deal. New people, new thoughts. That's not surprising at all.

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Why is flip-flopping bad? Couldn’t it be a case of becoming more enlightened? I’ve changed my opinion on major issues as I’ve become older and, hopefully, wiser. “Given that, I now think this” is, to me, perfectly reasonable.

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I buy stamps by the book (20) and don't think of the individual price. However, I remember when the price of a book of stamps exceeded $10.00, realizing the cost was now more than 50 cents per stamp.

I'm thankful that most of my correspondance and bill paying is now online, so I don't need many stamps.

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I got the Santos one, but I think the Mountain Dew one is the clear champ this week.

Thanks, EZ, for inventing forever stamps!

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I vote for Mary Schmich to be our Poet Laureate.

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023

Scott Reeder wasn't "ascribing a gender to an inanimate object." A "girl's bike" describes the person riding the bike, not the bike itself. The salesperson was an idiot as well as a jerk.

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At a recent wedding my husband and I marveled at how many songs the bride and groom ( people in their 20’s’ ) chose to play were from the 1960’ or 1970’s. THIRTY to FORTY years before these kids were born! As I pointed out we had ZERO songs at our wedding from the 1920’s or 1930’s…which would have been the equivalent time span. And their friends who were contemporaries enthusiastically sang along, knowing every word, to the now stadium participatory Sweet Caroline ( so did the old folks). Though the old folks were a bit perplexed by the participatory nature of Mr Brightside ( unless they are fans of UMICH football).

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The Ticketmaster issue is not the real problem. I5 is a symptom. The real problem is the absurd, and growing, disparity of wealth in the US. That is what Congress should be fixated on.

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Although the pictures of a fetus may not change the anti abortion crowd, it does provide some solace to the pro choice people, and Estero those on the fence.

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