Help me figure out these new bus stops
So I'm walking downtown by the office, as I often do, and I notice this HUGE new bus stop right by 5th St. and 1st Ave. What the heck? It practically takes up the whole street. Why does a bus need that much room to pick up a few people? It looks like it could hold three buses, easy. I thought after the bus drivers strike they'd scale this stuff back. I guess not.
05.26.04 @ 08:34 PM CDT [link]{{STOPcommentslink}}

Stop saying "carb"
If I hear somebody say "carb" one more time, I'm gonna puke. And it won't be a low-carb puke, either. Don't even say "barb" or "garb," because they are too close, and I might start gagging.
05.24.04 @ 08:06 AM CDT [link]{{STOPcommentslink}}

I woke up in a motel bathtub...
Thursday morning I woke up in a motel room, in the bathtub, groggy, in pain, and covered in ice. I glanced around the small bathroom and saw writing on the mirror that said, "We have stolen your wisdom teeth -- call 911 immediately." Cutthroat black-market teeth merchants!
05.11.04 @ 03:44 PM CDT [link]{{STOPcommentslink}}

Coming soon to a theater near you
Military trial six months from now...

"I'll ask for the fourth time. Did you order the Code Pile-of-Naked-Guys?"
   "You want answers?"
"I want the truth."
   "You can't HANDLE the truth!"
"Did you order the Code Pile-of-Naked-Guys?"
   "YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!"

05.05.04 @ 02:09 PM CDT [link]{{STOPcommentslink}}

Don't cry over regulated milk, because socialism tastes better with cheese
So there's a milk shortage. Production down 2% from a year ago. And the shortage can cause retail prices to swing up to 10% for each 1% drop in milk production according to Mr. Milk Expert in today's Strib article. The solution?? Raise the price paid to farmers for milk by about 50 cents per gallon, to stimulate production.
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Don't blame farmers, said Bob Lefebvre, director of the Minnesota Milk Producers Association. Farmers on average get about 30 cents of every dollar consumers spend on milk, and milk prices in 2002 and 2003 were at 20-year lows, he said.

Barb Liebenstein runs Wolf Creek Dairy, a 400-head farm in Dundas, near Northfield. She said the past two years were "really rough."

"We don't regulate the price of milk at all," Liebenstein said. "If the people that work for me want a raise, I can't raise the price of milk.
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They sound so nonplussed, it sounds like farmers don't want regulated milk prices at all! I guess we all just need to notify our Congresspeople, and by next year we'll have a free market for milk and Barb can raise her price whenever she wants to! Which of course won't work, because huge dairy operations across the country can undercut small dairy farmers. And that's not even considering the INSANE geographic pricing. So I guess we're stuck.
05.01.04 @ 02:06 PM CDT [link]{{STOPcommentslink}}