Wednesday November 6, 2013  Odd notice in the local laundromat.  The handwritten ad for a dryer wasn't strange in itself.  But it was on paper which said at the bottom "testosterone restored."

***My city council member was re-elected with 87 percent of the vote.  (Cam Gordon, Green Party, Ward 2.)  I'm surprised his opponent got as much as 13 percent.  She belongs to the Socialist Workers Party; members of other Trotskyite groups, and non-Trotskyite Marxists, wouldn't be eager to vote for her.  And she didn't do much campaigning.

Ward 2 is not prime conservative territory.  Other parts of Minneapolis are farther to the right.  Some even vote right of San Francisco and Portland OR.

Note:  Municipal elections are nonpartisan.  However, parties make endorsements.  Minnesota politics -- if you're not confused, you don't understand the situation.

***Comment:  Andre Guirard 11/06 "I think any convention in Antarctica can be considered continent-wide, because really, what else is there to do?" 

Winter sports, I would think.

***Citation: Dina Fainberg. Review of Leitch, Gillian I., ed., _Doctor Who in Time and Space: Essays on Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012_. Jhistory, H-Net Reviews. November, 2013. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39534

***From minnpost.com:  ...at MPR, Bob Collins covers the state Supreme Court's reversal of a Court of Appeals ruling. "The Minnesota Supreme Court today reversed a Court of Appeals ruling that granted a new trial for a St. Paul priest who said religious doctrine was used in his prosecution in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Christopher Wenthe was convicted in 2011 of having sex with a young woman he was counseling. … The priest was prosecuted under a Minnesota law that prohibits a clergy member from having sexual contact with a parishioner when the parishioner is seeking or receiving 'religious or spiritual advice, aid, or comfort', in private. He argued that the law unconstitutionally singles out clergy, which fails a test for determining whether it violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. He also argued that the statute 'inhibits' religion. But today the Minnesota Supreme Court rejected the argument, saying 'it covers only those clergy who choose to use their position as a clergy member, or who hold themselves out as a clergy member, to enter into sexual relationships with vulnerable individuals.'"....

***From Twitter:

Ari Berman ‏@AriBerman Democrats swept local elections in Boone NC yesterday, where GOP tried to restrict student voting http://www.journalnow.com/news/elections/local/article_cf560e1a-4686-11e3-8741-0019bb30f31a.html …
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