DFL Party Monkey Columnist Nick Coleman is constantly telling people, in regard to the "right wing daisy chain noise machine", to "Cuhnnuhct thuh duhts". When you remove the "Fargo"-ish voice timbre, he's saying "Connect The Dots".
Late last night, I woke up and asked myself "what if a real journalist actually were to connect the dots? What would they find?"
So I decided to do it.
First, I had to figure out what "the dots" were.
I found them:

Here's what they mean:
1. The AM1280 The Patriot Studio
2. My house.
3. The Governor's mansion.
4. Where the bodies are buried.
5. State GOP headquarters. Or the capitol. They're close to the same thing, I guess, these days.
6. Craig Westover's house.
7. Mark Yost's house.
8. What happened to #8? Karl Rove did it!
9. Washington Square bar and grill, a favored hangout of the NARN.
10. Bogus Doug's place.
11. David Strom's house.
12. King Banaian's place.
13. Jo, from the MAWB squad.
14. Edina, where everyone's a rich Republican.
15. Koscielski's gun shop.
16. The U of Saint Thomas, where Ann Coulter and the Campus Conservatives nearly brought traditional liberal Minnesota to its knees.
17. Doolittle's in Eagan, where the NARN plots its nefarious deeds during its top-secret planning meetings.
Now, what happens when you connect them all?

Cuhnnuhcting thuh...er, connecting the dots shows us (as labelled on the map), a fairly distinct trunk two tusks, and a couple of huge floppy ears.
That's right. When you connect the dots, the Twin Cities inner Republican is revealed!
Next week; is it a Daisy Chain, or more of a cluster hug?
Note: All area outside the dots is paleo-socialist, as before.
Posted by: RBMN at May 20, 2005 07:36 AMThat right ear needs to hang a little further down, Mitch. Follow 100 down south of 494 and you're into West Bloomington, which is solidly Republican - and not just because I'm living there. A little to the west is Eden Prairie, which is pretty conservative as well.
Or, as the kids might say, All Your Burb Are Belong To Us. ^^
Posted by: Kevin at May 20, 2005 09:54 AMWow. That map brings back memories of camping out on a futon in a house on West Minnehaha back in 1993. It really was a nice place to visit, but I only went back once, in 1994, and I'm itching to go again.
I *will* visit Minnesota this summer, provided I can convince four children under ten that a twelve-hours-in-one-day car ride is a good idea. "Hey kids, let's go to the Twin Cities and see the big elephant head!" "Yayyyyyy!!!"
Posted by: Dave in Pgh. at May 20, 2005 11:30 AMBWAHAHAHAAAHA!!!!!
That was BRILLIANT, Mitch. We're talking Lileks' level of creativity and humor to come up with the elephant head like that.
TOO DAMN FUNNY!!
Posted by: FJBill at May 20, 2005 01:34 PM