Can’t stop won’t stop. Now if only the MN GOP would stop being such oppressive zealots.
But their central assumption is rickety. Is Googling “hipster” is an activity exclusive to hipsters? I think it’s easy to argue that it’s exclusive to bad hipsters and square hipster-observers. Check per capita search results by state for “animal collective tickets”, “slotted sunglasses”, or “teenage mutant ninja turtles footie pajamas” and get back to me.
Please accept these photographs — taken the morning of April 20, 2011 — in lieu of an explanatory note.
Sincerely,
The Late Scott Shaffer


Almost Censored (heavy snow potential by Tuesday night)
The models agree on the timing of the next storms (late Tuesday through midday Wednesday), but not the amounts. The range: 4-14”, give or take a foot. Throw out the highest and lowest values and you still wind up with a midrange prediction in the 4”+ range. We’ll see. It’s still (very) early to be attaching inch-amounts to the forecast. Could it be “plowable”? Absolutely.
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Minnesota, you’re breaking my heart right now.
Update: Got excited and wrote a title that was wrong. Los Angeles County, with a population of 9.86 million and an unemployment rate of 12.7%, has 1,252,000 unemployed people. Hennepin County, with a population of 1.14 million and an unemployment rate of 6.1%, has 68,460 unemployed people. So LA actually has 18 times as many unemployed people as Minneapolis. Which is fun to picture, but the rate is what really matters.
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