My responsibilities as an advisor to a student club kept me busy until four this morning at another campus miles away from home. The drive back was one of those Jack Sparksian experiences where the iPod kept dishing up the perfect song to keep me awake and on the wind-swept prairie roads.
On a county road running through newly-harvested bean and cornfields, this old Son Volt song shuffled up:
. . .Never seem to get far enough
Staying in between the lines
Hold on to what you can
Waiting for the end
Not knowing whenMay the wind take your troubles away
May the wind take your troubles away
Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel,
May the wind take your troubles awayTrying to make it far enough, to the next time zone
Few and far between past the midnight hour
Never feel alone, you're really not alone...
before the Silver Jews came up in the mix. I was lucky: it could have been the rebetika-laced hip-hop or Balkan funeral chants remixes.
Friends know that four's when I usually get up (with the cows, naturally), so there's going to be a slow start on the prairie this morning.
QUICK REVIEW
For fodder to keep up your strength, try Leigh Pomeroy's posts on Boehner's ties to student lenders' largesse at Minnesota Monitor and Vox Verax and Pomeroy's review of conventional wisdom on the MN-01 race at Vox Verax. Hot Flashes from the Campaign Trail writes of a recent visit to MN-01.
The Mankato Free Press reports on an anti-DM & E party in Mankato's Sibley Park.
Tim Walz has topped the $25,000 mark at the ActBlue Netroots candidate page.
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