Nat Gas: updated weather forecasts every six hours giveth, and taketh away. Someone came home late Saturday from a Christmas party, looked at their phone and said "I am going to lose so much money when the market opens on Sunday night. Honey, we have to cancel the swimming pool contract."

Add another $12B to farm welfare programs. The tariff-related bailout in 2018-2019 bailout was over twice this amount, but it's still early. 😠 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

@maaronweber.bsky.social CarNerd is not the first thing that comes to mind. Similar to a woman way paste her prime with a big "JUICY" on the butt of her stretched out track pants. OTOH, if "nerd" = keeping an old Olds running and apparently rust free through many MN winters, I'll allow it.

Floor sweepings topping a cookie. The end is nigh. (sign on the bakery case in a gas station. It made me lose my appetite for a plain old peanut butter cookie)

@maaronweber.bsky.social Every time I see this beauty at Mpls Institute of Art: ❤️ #weirdcarbs collections.artsmia.org/art/98653/ta... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_87

From a local FB "buy nothing" group - the message was "a little bit of everything my family won’t eat from food shelf this week" My thoughts: That's a lot of *high quality, nutritious food* much of it storable or freezable. Maybe learn to prepare chicken & beans and don't take what you don't need 😠

My brother is visiting Minneapolis. He called this morning inviting me to the Four Seasons for breakfast. I responded, "Should I bring a tuxedo or a rake and a shovel?" I waited FIVE years to use that line and he barely chuckled. No respect, I tell ya'

"Corn ethanol requires millions of acres that could instead be used for food crops or more efficient energy sources. One recent study found that solar panels can generate as much energy as corn ethanol on roughly 3% of the land."

"The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse" - an updated version of the fable. Context: Facebook buyer of coins was an hour late. No text or phone, just a FB msg later. It's sunny, mid-day, everyone has GPS, and while urban area has 2.7M people, the "battleground" of Mpls is only 430K. <shrugs>

We used to be a serious county, No. 872 in a series: "Part of an ongoing commitment from Nabisco in the 1960s to make meat-flavored party snacks."

doctor operated on my anal glands instead of my adrenal glands because he forgot about dre

I am now going to win so many "is it safe" debates w/ my wife. "A food & science writer used a sealed liquid 3 years past the best by date. Check mate, baby!" P.S. I push dates, esp. dry and canned goods, and even I would be skeptical of 3 yrs, but I don't know much about aseptic pkg.

Rotten eggs at USDA? On the left, recent Indiana HPAI outbreaks labeled as commercial layers. On the right, USDA uses catch all definition, typically for much smaller flocks. Odd. -Bad records? -IN doesn't distinguish btwn duck & chicken layers? -USDA trying to hide 460K dead chicken layers?

She thicc. Also, Caterpillar mining division has several openings in their marketing & sales dept.

stable genius, who bankrupted a CASINO and several other businesses, broadcasts to the world that he doesn't understand a simple truth about prices and percentages. (and perhaps believes lower drug prices alone will fix our ridiculous healthcare & health insurance systems)

Breaking: Ohio State's head football coach overcomes the yips and OSU finally beats Michigan. #GoBuckeyes

And the winner is:

In addition to everything else about this incompetent, law-breaking !@#$%^, he's not only violating the US Flag Code but he must be colorblind and can't count either (the shade of blue is wrong and so is the star pattern). It looks like he shoved a dollar store napkin in his pocket.

Sound on

TIL that Santa Claus punched an opposing bishop in the face and Santa's side of the debate carried the day (+1700 years). Interesting article (it's short). www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.

Good "get off my lawn" material here.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

The "salad" below could be straight from a Lutheran Church Basement Ladies cookbook (or an idea from a woman's magazine circa 1950s, so ~same thing).

That was close! Glad they Ducked🤭

In better news this afternoon... www.wsj.com/business/cam...

@maaronweber.bsky.social A. In today's email, "take a look at the 2026 BMW X7 ALPINA XB7 for the low, low price of $164,575" B. The vibes of most modern high-end SUVs, esp. BMWs.

It's been a rough 17 months for Novo Nordisk.

Points for creativity, but pigeons and Canada geese often begin to ignore counter-measures once they learn they're harmless.

TIL about the origins of Paleo Bro. * Link: contains a mention about a radiologist's 1985 paper. * Image: from the 1995 archives section of today's "Milling & Baking News" ... and here we are 40 or 30 years later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...

The market HATES consumer packaged goods right now, Conagra stock is at a 12-year low, and here's a little Q&A between Wall St analyst (a VP, whoohoo!) and CFO & CEO about exiting a large flour milling JV that has been doing fine. Decisions, decisions...

New egg price fixing lawsuit just dropped. If this isn't ambulance chasing, sunshine will be good b/c of the 2022-25 increases compared to other outbreaks. Of note: Two of the private egg price info services (one reporting, one auction) are listed as co-defendants. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Apropos of nothing, two recent Netflix views: 👍 Train Dreams. Highly rated, some awards. Different, but I liked it a lot. 👎 The A-Team (the 2010 film). Brain candy. Nonsense. Half of it made on a computer. Liam Neeson said it was confusing and he was a co-star.

Another important govt report that will have not just one, but a two-month data gap, perhaps forever. Chicken is only our most-consumed meat, and eggs have been in the inflation headlines for four years. 😠

Great moments in marketing: "Hey, Bob. You know all that crap we used to practically give away to pet food companies? Let's call it Primal Blend, price it higher than ground beef and sell it to the Paleo Bros."

I think the author is missing the point. It's not the color it's the "Fair Isle yoke" that looks like it belongs on Golden Girls. ‐----- Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not breaking news - the filing was close to a week ago, but it's big news in agriculture. That's a lot of money in what is supposed to be a low margin, fairly low risk business. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

I had a Saturday job around here but now I remember it more from the show I heard about where, when Earth was illuminated in the cosmic dome, somebody started booing. Postcard via Bill Melhuish

@maaronweber.bsky.social Remember this? I once read that many to-the-frame rails restorations are a labor of love because they only pay off with certain vehicles. This might be one of those cases. Sold for $35K. bringatrailer.com/listing/1986...

In my day, we climbed rickety, off-center scissor lifts high into the winter air and froze our fingers hanging Christmas decorations while traffic buzzed below us. And we liked it! We loved it! (and... no orange cones, flashing lights on the truck and maybe only one "watcher" rather than 2 or 3)

This sounds devastating for a town of a little over 11,000 people.

File under: Predictable (for anyone that knows the tiniest bit about agriculture, which top WH people do not) minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/21/r...

Public Storage: Economic indicator? Seasonal weakness? I don't know but the "Baby, come back" email was interesting. I terminated my first-ever storage contract with them in Feb b/c they raised the price significantly every four months and now they're offering a $20 lock and a 1-yr fixed price.

MN Public Radio classical station has an "on this day" segment with names of notable performers and composers. Near the end the host slides this one in "and today is also the 40th birthday of Carly Rae Jensen, so call her, maybe" Perfect delivery. 👍🙂

Don't mess with Big Ag in South Dakota or elsewhere. They deserve the right to pollute with near impunity b/c they're special. Oh, and bailouts (dairy story) b/c GOP/MAGA are loathe to come to the table on sensible immigration policy for *their* workers. www.newsfromthestates.com/state/south-...

It would be nice if this remains below $90,000 at Thanksgiving and Christmas so the Bitcoin Bros are forced to be quiet or talk about something other than their spectacular gains since the last family gathering.

Do it.

Big news from SPAMTOWN USA. No in-person annual meeting this year, gotta' pick up the gift box the following morning at the SPAM Museum. Probably don't want to face angry retirees in a company town and have to explain why their stock has cratered.

@barchart.com Feedback: You raised prices 17% since last renewal. Steep yr over yr but you've added features and if it stays at that level, fine. What's not OK is the false advertising that Premium is ad-free. Recently there is a "Plus 500" gambling firm ad hovering on my screen. Get rid of that.

@gbspace.bsky.social Gina! Hi! 🙂