minneapolis upside down

The Star Tribune reports that the mayor presided over the liquidation of the 122 year old Minneapolis Public Library system with typical Rybakian bullshit, "This unification will create a premier library system that maximizes the best of our Minneapolis and Hennepin County libraries. . . ."

This is what City Hall insiders call "sewing up the wound." After Rybak cuts your kidney out and hands it to the highest bidder, he reappears to remind that you have a remaining "world-class" kidney while deftly cross stitching with catgut the gaping hole in your back .

That is not to say that Rybak is to blame for the loss of our library to the Hennepin County suburban behemoth--that is reserved Tim Pawlenty (who is touring Iraq and Afghanistan with his absurdly black new Reaganesque doo) and Jesse Ventura.

But the winner is Grover Norquist. There has been no better local illustration of his famous dictum "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub," than this. While Grover holds up the dripping body of our locally controlled library system with creepy grin, little R. T. jumps up and down and exclaims, "and I helped."

--Loosestrife