James Lileks
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Lileks: Make smokers pay for it all ...
The governor proposed filling the stadium-funding gap with cigarette revenue, which has become magic tax-spackle you can use to plug...
Updated: May 18, 2013, - 05:16 PM
Lileks: The awful truth behind gas that suddenly costs $4.29 a gallon
If you filled up your tank this week, you’ve noticed the price jumped from the new painful normal to HOLY...
Updated: May 16, 2013, - 08:19 PM
Lileks: Sir, I'll need your license, registration and Twitter handle
Friday night had the largest drunken-driving patrol in Twin Cities history. Some news outlets said they’d be tweeting the names...
Updated: May 11, 2013, - 07:42 PM
Lileks: Plastic, you say? That’ll be a nickel a bag – for Uncle Sam
“Sturdy, reusable mainstay of the grocery industry,” the clerk usually says, “or shabby non-reusable turtle-choker?” I’m paraphrasing. Paper or plastic, that...
Updated: May 10, 2013, - 12:07 AM
Lileks: Time to zipper merge
It’s not often I admit I’m wrong, because that tarnishes the sense of infallibility newspaper columnists share with meteorologists and...
Updated: May 04, 2013, - 10:35 PM
Lileks: Just once, fire should consume the scourge of the neighborhood
If you read of a south Minneapolis deli burning down, you no doubt felt a sympathetic twinge for everyone who...
Updated: April 27, 2013, - 05:23 PM
Lileks: Minneapolis Pothole #480414 repaired... Next!
There must be a proper, scientific name for a pothole. Something you can use in conversation to make yourself sound...
Updated: April 25, 2013, - 08:57 PM
Lileks: In Minnesota, 2013 is a broken year
Friday was declared “Ski to work day,” which is just the sort of positive, laugh-through-your-tears attitude we need to keep...
Updated: April 20, 2013, - 09:27 PM
Lileks: Aware of weather? Can’t you hear our screaming?
Blowing the tornado sirens during a snowstorm is like setting off the fire alarm on the Titanic: Can’t really improve...
Updated: April 18, 2013, - 08:57 PM
Minnesota reruns: clothing tax, the weather
According to one novel theory, the universe is actually a computer simulation. We’re living in someone’s machine, and we have...
Updated: April 13, 2013, - 09:43 PM
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