{"id":75696,"date":"2020-10-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75696"},"modified":"2020-10-25T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T18:12:14","slug":"hes-like-the-sid-hartman-of-political-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75696","title":{"rendered":"He’s Like The Sid Hartman Of Political Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Larry Jacobs got dunked hard over this tweet last week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m going to come to Professor Jacobs’ (partial, and let’s be honest, largely comic) defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect he’s referring to the Uptown Bar. Which was at one point one <\/em>of the most popular bars in Uptown<\/em>, which is “in a college town” in the sense that Minneapolis has several colleges in it (rather than, say, Morris or Mankato or even my hometown). It was certainly a place to see and be seen back in the day – and I certainly saw and was seen there, a couple of lifetimes ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it closed in 2009<\/a>. Long before Covid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was replaced, by the way, by an Apple Store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which announced its impending closure last week<\/a>, in the middle of a hamfisted lockdown and the Uptown neighborhood’s descent into crime and violence. While urbanists claim “stores close all the time in Uptown”, citing a number of flavor-of-the-month boutiques and restaurants, I’ll hasten to remind you – in the middle of a neighborhood full of hipsters with enough disposable income to, well, live in Uptown<\/em>, it was an Apple Store<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it’s gone. #Unexpectedly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We interrupt this blog post for a song, which is not remotely thematic, nosirreebob. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, more to the point, Nosirree Bob:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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