{"id":18370,"date":"2011-02-24T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18370"},"modified":"2011-02-24T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:28:02","slug":"pity-the-musk-ox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18370","title":{"rendered":"Pity The Musk Ox"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, Nancy LaRoche – of Freedom Dogs, True North <\/em>and many a great Protest Warrior send-up – reported <\/a>on a conversation she’d had with a state senator about Mark Daytons’ office, which the Governor has had moved into a closet:<\/p>\n

One of the most remarkable comments the Senator made was how Governor Mark Dayton has transformed his office. He installed cubicles into his office space for staff, and moved his office into… a closet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Sally Jo Sorenson” of the leftyblog Bluestem Prairie <\/em>responded with the usual tools of the leftyblogger’s trade<\/a>: name-calling…:<\/p>\n

Pity poor Nancy LaRoche, the latest victim of slow loris syndrome, both thinking it clever to engage in a pathetic fallacy,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…the ofay ad-hominem…:<\/p>\n

while breathlessly reporting idle chatter from a senator in Michael Brodkorb’s caucus as breaking news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and, as a noxious little “bonus”, a gratuitous reference to Nancy’s employer.<\/p>\n

Oh, and a smidgen of factoid – that Rachel Stassen-Berger had “reported<\/a>” the story a month earlier in the Strib<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The new governor has taken the reins of state, but he’s letting go of the some of the trappings. When visitors come into the ornate, spacious corner office traditionally reserved for Minnesota’s head of state, they will find three staffers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, Sally Jo Sorenson not by a long shot the most noxious leftyblogger out there – that would be worth a poll, but I’m not going to be the one to throw it.\u00a0 Still, her post has the three things on which most – too much – Minnesota DFL-blogging relies:<\/p>\n