Thursday Blogging - My

Thursday Blogging - My afternoon job interview was rescheduled to Thursday at 11AM. So now I have two job interviews on Thursday, the first at 7:30 AM.

Then, I have to go to my son's presentation at school. His project for the year - Hawaii. He's dressed as Kamehameha, and he's going to demo the volcano we built last week.

Yes, the volcano works. I've always wanted to do that.

Anyway, posts will probably come later in the day Thursday. Bear with me. And with any luck, I'll have a job in the next week or so. Finally.

Dee Long And Winding Road - MPR's Midday show had an hour-long interview with former DFL senator Dee Long today.

Long - most famous (to me) for being at the center of a golf junket scandal about ten years ago - is apparently a pundit without portfolio these days.

I was tempted to call when she said, about the "no new taxes" pledge (I'm closely paraphrasing here) that some user fees are going up sharply - so as long as they're going up, why not raise regular taxes as well?

Big difference, Ms. Long: user fees are to some degree voluntary. Don't want to pay the fee? Don't use. One has some recourse that doesn't involve waiting for the next legislative session. Taxes - direct assessments - on the other hand are not voluntary in the least. It's no surprise that Long wants to give the government more leeway to set and raise the involuntary taxes.

By the way, here's an open note to those of you who say "Tim Pawlenty was only elected by 24% (or whatever) of the total voters. The DFL stands for everyone else!". By your "logic", Roger Moe got 20% of the vote, then, and the GOP stands for proportionally more of the non-voters than does the DFL.

Carry on.