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Segregation in MN

Posted onApril 3, 2018February 7, 2019 By David Perry

Minnesota remains highly segregated when it comes to adults with disabilities. Read this new Star Tribune report.

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I wrote an essay. I'd love you to read it.

"It’s 2018 and I’m sitting in my dad’s kitchen on a stiff wooden chair, watching the Boston Red Sox play the Houston Astros in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. It’s the last baseball game we watched together from start to finish, and it’s likely the last baseball game we’ll ever watch together.

A few miles away, my mother lay in a hospice bed, dying of lung cancer. She was still weeks away from passing, well-cared for and with her pain managed, so my dad and I spent the day with her and then nights back at the house. It was not my childhood home, or homes, houses in Buffalo, Bloomington, and Nashville, long abandoned. But it had my childhood things, pots and pans and plates, art on the walls, the weird clock, the glossy table. I cooked lamb on the grill and then turned on the game.

My dad was already beginning to drift in time and space as his Alzheimer’s continued its inexorable course, but he didn’t need 24/7 care yet, so we were alone, watching the game. He knew his wife was dying and he knew his son was there."

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"[Men] shave the front part of their head, like thieves, and let their hair grow very long in the back, like harlots.”

It's Sara McDougall and me, in Slate.com, on the medieval mullet. #TheLastDuel

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Certain peevish monks would have strenuously objected to this look.

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"When it comes to depicting medieval women and medieval systems of justice, The Last Duel replaces the malevolence of medieval patriarchy and adds in relatively modern threats. It’s a strange mix of history and fiction—a muddle that misses a chance to reveal how the hierarchies of oppression remain static but the manifestations of those hierarchies shift with the times." With Sara McDougall.

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The film pits Matt Damon against Adam Driver in a medieval battle over sexual assault. But did any of that really happen?

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My son stole my hat and glasses.

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"However it's done, President Biden needs to make good, at a minimum, on his $10,000 pledge. I urge him, though, to pick a number that more realistically acknowledges the scope of the problem...perhaps he can do the $26,382 that public university students owe on average. Or, If that's too high, maybe he can try for even the $13,414 that community college students accrue in debt on average.

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Looking at Biden's campaign promise to cancel $10,000 in student debt per person in response to the economic hardships of the pandemic and the fact that the US Department of Education announced that its Covid-related repayment and interest moratorium will end on Jan. 31, 2022, David Perry says...

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Roald Dahl was an anti-semite and I don't really feel like anyone should read him; if they do read him, I want the bigotry made plain.

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David M. Perry explains why, as a longtime childhood reader of Roald Dahl, his heart sank when he saw Netflix had acquired Dahl's catalog.

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