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Again from the Library of Congress’ immacuate collection:

Emperor Nicholas II shovelling [sic] snow in the park at Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, where he and the royal family were interned, 1917 .

See, even the fu**ing Emperor had to shovel snow.

The Grand Forks Herald headline says it all: “Walsh County sheriff wins re-election, fires opponent.” Of the many great passages of the article about the firing of the 19-year veteran, this is maybe the best:

“Wild said he consulted with the state’s attorney and a human resources official before firing Nord.”

Below are two recent screen-grabs from Rob Port’s Say Anything Blog, a cheerleader for tea party activism. Looks about what one would expect so many in that movement are really about.

Of course, that’s not a question driven by racism at all. He’s just askin’, you know?!

Rob Port of North Dakota is fat. Yes, Rob Port, editor of the Say Anything blog. That Rob Port. Yes, he is really fat. Unsightly fat and obese. I mean, Rob Port is “he told his listeners they needed to cut pork spending and they started in his refrigerator” fat. Rob Port is “he posted a story about the Dubai port controversy and his readers thought they meant he was switching to Middle Eastern food” fat. Rob Port is “his parents Carol Port and Rollie Port worry about him dropping dead of heart disease” fat. Rob Port is “how does he even have sex with his wife Jessica” fat.  Rob Port. Fat.

Yes, that Rob Port. He’s fat. Rob Port is so fat.  And stupid.

I wanted to love Machete as much as the next guy the few people this film was target at. But logically it suffered. For example, look at Machete’s to chest-strapped machete knives below. How exactly are those thicker-at-the-top knives supped to be unsheathed?

Maybe there are buttons under the leather in a closer up view.

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So, you people of the coasts: what do they want? They want Washington to “listen.” They want to not be “treated like sheep.” They want better education (maybe). They want Ronald Reagan bon mots. They want jokes about moving D.C. to North Dakota because the cold would “force politicians to keep their hands in their own pockets.” They want to sing God Bless America. They want, in one speaker’s words, “to take it back for the United States Constitution for liberty.” They want, more than anything, lower taxes…

In light of the tea party primary wins, a look back on my dispatch from a tea party in August 2009. Read it all.

In Grand Forks, Terry Dullum is a bit of a broadcasting legend. He reports for WDAZ on, well, kind of whatever fancies him. He even has a book club.

Uh oh. Oprah would not approve.

When a teenager or dumb blogger “appropriates” a copyrighted logo like this it’s forgivable. When a broadcaster with a lifetime of experience does, well, it calls into question the quality of education given in the University of Grand Forks Communications Department (of which Dullum is a grad; ‘70).

Update: Mr. Dullum comments that it’s only a joke.  So was mine! No hard feelings? He does point out though that I incorrectly named the university. It should be the University of North Dakota-Grand Forks. I knew that but clearly did not graduate from any college at all!