Meanwhile on the International front....

Az, you could have borrowed my soccer shin guards.

 

Once we get the time machine working, I'll stop by.

Thanks, my friend!

 

Remember, college kids getting yelly in public is religious persecution but a Congressman telling an Ivy League president his school may be “cursed by God” in a hearing is A-OK!

https://religionnews.com/2024/04/23/christians-must-confront-the-weaponization-of-a-sacred-promise/

 

Why is rising anti-Semitism that's been going on for six months and counting and has been taking place on several campuses across the country a national story?

There would literally be no stories to report on if the standard was that something was not happening in the majority of places. Did you think Unite the Right was not worthy of national attention because those fucking losers didn't organize more rallies.* Are you wondering why the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are big stories since there are no wars in the majority of countries?

Quite a take.

*insert dumb knee-jerk MAGA joke.

 

Mad that he wasn't mentioned in the Hibbing wall of fame.

 

From the "more things change" files:

this is the building where I was kicked in the shin 47 years ago.

 

Why is every bumpkin in Oklahoma politics in the news? Because people read about culture wars.

And these are protests about the biggest story in the world.

 

Opinion | I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.

Today’s protesters don’t hate Israel’s government any more than yesterday’s hated South Africa’s. But they have pursued their goals with a markedly different tenor — in part because of the single-mindedness of antiracist academic culture and in part because of the influence of iPhones and social media, which inherently encourage a more heightened degree of performance. It is part of the warp and woof of today’s protests that they are being recorded from many angles for the world to see. One speaks up.

But these changes in moral history and technology can hardly be expected to comfort Jewish students in the here and now. What began as intelligent protest has become, in its uncompromising fury and its ceaselessness, a form of abuse.

 

My brother-in-law and his wife live in Hibbing. They are coming here tomorrow for a visit. Should I kick him in the shins? Is it a tradition that must be observed?

 

There will be another spot for some mining up that way soon:
Minnesota to close state park on Iron Range, turn it back into a mine

I don't think I've been to Hill Annex. Been to Hull Rust a few times, the more famous spot and closer to where you probably got drilled.

 

Apparently, Hill Annex is very rarely visited and only open a few days a week. Hull Rust mine overlook moved ca. 2018 because the original site was turned into, you guessed it, a mine.

 

In 1978 I got kicked in the shin on the playground for trying to cop a feel in the third grade.