So over the weekend I was out on Snelling Avenue, down around Saint Clair street, along the east edge of the Macalester College campus.<\/p>\n
For those of you not from the area, Mac is the standard by which other left-leaning Twin Cities’ post-secondary institutions measure their leftism.\u00a0 It’s Berkeley (or at least Oberon) on the Mississippi.\u00a0 It’s Kofi Annan’s alma mater, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n
Mac was a hotbed of Obama support; Obama, according to Mark Ritchie’s office, got 225% of the vote on campus last November. [*]<\/p>\n
Anyway – down by Saint Clair, someone hung a seven-foot-tall black and white “Change” poster with the iconic “Obama” image on it, on the side of an apartment building facing Snelling.<\/p>\n
But when I caught\u00a0it out of the corner of my eye, it looked less like Obama than…<\/p>\n
…er, Peter Lorre.<\/p>\n
And at second glance?\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Still Peter Lorre.<\/p>\n
Just\u00a0saying.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
[*] Kidding.\u00a0 I’m a kidder.\u00a0 I kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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