I was in the TC this past weekend to attend the Upper Midwest Emmy Awards (the Redemption Party videos I produced last year were nominated in a promotions category) and to visit Dad who, God willing, will be starting his second round of chemo at Abbott Northwestern Hospital this week (the peach-fuzzed monk is upbeat and ready to go to battle).

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It was just over a year ago that the RNC came to town and gave our strippers good money, Sarah Palin infused Mall of America department stores with a stimulus package, and I told the singer-songwriter Five for Fighting—who played a few songs for Norm Coleman at one RNC party—that I loved his music. (It is good dental office music...you know the song, the one about life not being easy for Superman.)

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All weekend and into the early part of this week, a Vesuvian plume of ash and smoke has risen from the Angeles National Forest from a wild fire that continues to burn out of control in the mountains just outside of LA.

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