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Do You Want a Real Doctor?

If you needed surgery, perhaps just a tooth pulled, or maybe something more serious... would you prefer to have a licensed practicing Doctor who went through school and a residency, or a Fox News host--to do the procedure?

Scooby-Doo and the Green Reflecting Pool

Zoiks! https://youtu.be/GU_ID0asQ3M?is=b3OMnudqGP-kNSnC

Black Horse Fly

Black Horse Fly

Shame on the Republicans

It's not only embarrassing and shameful, but it's downright destructive and dangerous, that Donald Trump is still in power, and the Republican party is still enabling him to destroy our 250-year-old democracy, so that billionaires can get richer.

Big Stone Mini Golf in Minnetrista

http://www.bigstoneminigolf.com/

Dakota County Fair 2026

USA Healthcare is Organized Crime

What company can quote you a price, then charge 138% of that estimate and then slip in another charge from someone you never met, who did something you never agreed to? Welcome to healthcare in the USA! In the example I just gave, it was HealthPartners. The insurance was HealthPartners. The clinic was HealthPartners. I would expect, that they could provide an accurate estimate. But no. The one thing that they could provide, is when I went through the appeal process regarding my bill, the appeal was handled by, and denied by HealthPartners. What other business can do this? It hardly seems legal. Yes, healthcare is broken in the USA. And, it's getting worse not better.

Annual Cicada

"The Moment"

Two Sides

Blastoff!

Ant Bee

Rural MAGA

We just returned from rural Minnesota. There were lots of Mike Lindell for governor signs. It's good to be back in the Twin Cities, where I have not seen any pillow guy signage.

Dr. Fauci and MAGA

Doctor Fauci did a good job. If you hate him, it's almost certainly because he's smarter than you are.

Political Fraud

Just imagine the cognitive dissonance of being able to see fraud if it can can be connected to somali immigrants, yet being completely oblivious to much larger fraud being committed continuously by the President of the United States and his allies.

Primary Incentive

Even though I vote in all of the main elections, I must admit that I rarely vote in the primaries. I guess it's because you have to vote a straight party ticket, and I'm not tied to either party. But this year, one candidate in the senate race has chosen to run a negative campaign and lie, rather than focus on her own position. The message has worked to get me into the polls, but not in the way this candidate was hoping it would.

Who's Stealing Your Money?

We pay a shit-ton in taxes, AND our healthcare is super expensive. Yet, Trump gets free healthcare, and doesn't pay taxes. It's not the immigrants who are stealing your money...

Rice Creek Trail 20260801

The birds are ospreys.