Modern Life in Northern Minnesota
The Telegraph of London ran a great story about Bob Dylan’s 50th Hibbing High School class reunion held last weekend. They actually had a reporter at the reunion in the hopes that he might show up. This is worth a read if only because it properly shows the changes in Hibbing’s attitude about Dylan over the years.
(hat tip to my Manchester connection David Leaver)
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‘in 1978, Dylan told an interviewer that the stillness of the landscape enforced by a winter of eight months’ duration was practically “hallucinogenic”‘
Nailed it!
“a small desolate mining community south of the Canadian border.”
“A lurker who spews bile all over an Iron Range blog to get a rise out of people.”
Good thing it was a lurker and not and actual a commenter, eh.
Was it Bob that said that or something like it?
Way to set a “good” example, Aaron. I hope everything is OK; you seem overly angry lately.
How is that HOPE and CHANGE workin out for ya?
Furious, K-Rod. Irony impairment makes me so very angry.
Actually the hope and change is working out great. Thanks for asking the 800th time. The first 799 times I thought you were trying to be clever, but now I realize that you are genuinely concerned about how my hope and change are working out.
They are great! Zero new wars and we’re going to reform health care. It’s a start. Thanks for asking.
Great? How ironic.
You think this is “great”?
We are fighting TWO wars!!!
Almost 20% unemployment!!!
$2 trillion deficit!!!
Health care reform (emphasis mine):
the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. …on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
…Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released… …House Ways and Means Committee…
…The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. …the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states: “Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.”
These things, by your own definition, should make you mad as hell!!!
It would appear, K-Rod, that we disagree politically. Shocking! I can’t believe it.
I could go point by point. The 20 percent unemployment is an exaggeration. It’s almost that high here on the Range, but not quite, and not everywhere. And the requisite political thing to say would be that Obama inherited the economy, which I believe is true, but that doesn’t change the situation.
Your whole diatribe on health care is also predictably partisan. People will keep their current plans if they want them. They’ll have the option to change plans if they want. The uninsured — A POPULATION NO ONE CARES ABOUT — will finally have some reasonable options for coverage — perhaps private, perhaps public.
Get your own blog, K-Rod. You don’t use your name on my blog. I am exactly who I say I am. I am a person with a phone number and a job and an real identity. I called you a lurker because you lurk around, in the shadows, to change the tone of everything I take the time to write. Useless. Your contributions are useless. I’m not saying that because I disagree with you, because I have other commentors who disagree with me. But because your style is idiotic and a waste of my time and yours. That’s not anger. That’s a frustration when I have to spend some of my rare time for blog work on you.
Hey, K-Rod, that’s an honest, human opinion. Just go away. Or is it that you can’t?
I’ve yet to meet anyone who graduated with Bob in “1959.”