The Shorter Twin Cities Blog Scene
By Mitch Berg
The Event: While bowling, David Strom knocked down all but the 8 and 9 pin, and then – improbably – picked up the spare.
The Shorter Shot In The Dark: David Strom rolled a spare.
The Shorter True North: David Strom rolled a spare. (Comment on this post over at Shot In The Dark)
The Shorter Scott Johnson: In a scene reminiscent of the pandemonium after Jimi Hendrix’ tour de force at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, our good friend David Strom did to the pins what he’s spent a career doing to the opponents of Milton Friedman.
The Shorter Dump Bachmann: I bet it was actually Michele Bachmann dressed in a Strom suit. Developing…
The Shorter MNPost: We asked U of Minnesota Political Science professor Larry Jacobs to put Strom’s score in context for us…
The Shorter Ed Morrissey: David Strom rolled a spare – but he shouldn’t pin his hopes on a career as a bowler.
The Shorter Minnesota Progressive Project: David Strom knocked down 17 pens, just like Chimpy McBushitler knocked down teh Twin Towers.
The Shorter Lori Sturdevant: David Strom rolled a spare. Elmer Anderson, a real Minnesota Republican, would have left a few pins for Democrats to pick up.
The Shorter Dusty Trice: David Strom attacks mob!
September 8th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
“The Shorter Minnesota Progressive Project: David Strom knocked down 17 pens, just like Chimpy McBushitler knocked down teh Twin Towers.”
I can see toodumbtommy saying the spare was a conspiracy. His evidence would be that Obama proved bowling pins can’t be knocked down by a bowling ball.
Note to Dusty Trice: If you’re going to go with a headline about an “angry mob”, don’t post a video that shows a group that is neither a mob nor angry.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
The Shorter DumpBachman: Michele Bachmann watches David Strom knock down pins, then makes a covenant to slit her wrists and be blood brothers. Developing…
September 8th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
The Shorter Minnesota Progressive Project-
by Grace Kelly
“The evil neo-conservative community cheered today at a massacre of proportions not seen since the police fired machine guns into the peaceful crown at the RNC. Not content with just cutting down 8 of the pins representing poor oppressed and peace loving Palestinians, Strom gleefully reloaded with a heavier ball and took aim at innocence once again. With a savage victory cry, he cut down the pin representing Hugo Chavez, friend of workers the world over, and most ominously the pin representing our beloved Barack Obama, clearly showing that Strom is a racist.
I conducted an informal poll of independent Minnesota voters (who all happened to be gathered for Drinking Liberally) and everyone concluded that Strom’s actions were a stain on the Minnesota culture, and that reparations would have to be paid by the state to every minority we can find in the name of social justice.”
September 8th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
That’s too well written and coherent to be Grace Kelly.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Mitch forgot the Learned Foot version: Amazingly, Strom stays out of the gutter.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Foot, Grace would have babbled about how Strom rolled a spare, and Governor Pawlenty had abdicated his responsibilities by not being there to see it.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Night Writer Says:
September 8th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Mitch forgot the Learned Foot version: Amazingly, Strom stays out of the gutter.
Best written so far.
September 8th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Shorter Fraters headline: Strombowli.
September 8th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
My goodness, that was one angry mob.