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Vice: /vīs/ noun: immoral or wicked behavior.
There is a proposal before the activist-driven Minneapolis City Council to mandate raising the price of a pack of cigarettes to $15 per pack. It seems to have made a lot of smokers and convenience store owners unhappy....

Camping near Welch circa 1995
The Cannon Valley Bike Trail runs between the small Minnesota towns of Cannon Falls, Welch, and Red Wing. The trail, running over a former railroad bed, was dedicated in 1986 and completed in 1992. It takes less than an hour to get there from the Twin...

I want my technology to have many capacities, but free will is not among them. David Brooks
The quote above came from a rather rare rant that the normally rational David Brooks wrote in a recent NYT column titled “Why is Technology Mean to Me?”.  In the piece he describes a day of frustrating technology issues (printer not working, Bluetooth...

Don’t worry if your job is small and your rewards are few. Just remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. Bullwinkle J. Moose
A couple weeks ago, I volunteered at a local food shelf. What I thought would be a food packing job turned out to be a shelf cleaning task. Despite being neat, I do not like to clean. I hire a cleaning person to dust, vacuum and scrub my townhouse. So...