This morning's Star Tribune had an article on Karl Bremer, who writes the blog rippleinstillwater . He digs into government records better than some politicians and lays out the facts. One current entry is on the proposed Stillwater bridge and its actual costs. Another is that he and two others have written a book on Michele Bachmann that is selling better than Bachman's own book on herself, at least in Stillwater.
Bremer has a sidebar of "leftyblogs" that gives a list of current blog entries from a long list of "progressive" blogs. I wondered about adding this blog to the list, but I decided I didn't meet their condition of entries mostly on state politics. As I said about my Reader Weekly "Party of One" column, I write what I damn well please.
I did like leftyblogs definition of "progressive": "progressives generally believe in the power of people to organize themselves for the improvement of society, through government and other institutions." Now who could argue with that. Probably not even corporations that fund "grass-roots" organizations for the benefit of themselves.
One of the interesting ads this morning on the sidebar of rippleinstillwater was for the Scott Walker campaign. It was not there this afternoon. Was that because Google AdSense rotated ads? Or did the Walker campaign pull it because it was on a Minnesota blog? Can't be that. Walker takes money from every state (just as do the people we like). Or did the Walker campaign pull it because too many people clicked it who had no interest in contributing, thus costing the campaign and putting a couple cents or a couple of dollars in Bremer's pocket? We'll never know, but I hope Bremer did get a bit more revenue because of the ad.
