Off Message?

Nick Coleman, on noting several surveys that show the Twin Cities are among the "smartest" metro areas, gives us too much information:

By the way, I admit to perusing Men's Health on occasion, because it has advice on how to keep a man's thighs firm and includes useful tips on such things as "Boost Your Foreplay Quotient," which is FQ for short.

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I am willing to bet Minneapolis does not rank high on FQ lists, but Men's Health says it has lots of IQ. The mag ranked Minneapolis No. 1 based on the number of bachelor's degrees per capita, its number of universities, its SAT scores and its "creativity," which is hard to define, but you know we have it in buckets when you see how cleverly the city turns a 35 percent crime increase into a happy little 15 percent bump.

And Men's Health is not alone in bragging about the size of our brainpans. Last month, Kiplinger's Personal Finance rated Minneapolis-St. Paul as No. 2 in the country on its list of "smart places to live," which rated affordability and livability, and suggested that smart people gravitate toward cities such as ours.

Weren't the Pawlenty tax cuts supposed to make Minnesota really stupid?