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The tooth dairy will cure our state budget woes

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jun. 9

Bugs, Carbon Dioxide and climate change

Forrest Johnson  |  Wednesday Jun. 1

2016 NUFA political alerts to begin

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday May. 26

Kill the unions and the working class and bow to the economocracy

Forrest Johnson  |  Wednesday May. 18

Sports in general and the myths of patriotism

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 28

We so smart we kill our world and don’t even know it—Part Three

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 21

The Constitutional right to ask the dumb question is guaranteed

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Apr. 14

Shack marching band members emerging from winter dens

Thursday Apr. 7

Flat Earth Economic Society at work in Minnesota and US again

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 31

With sponsors like that, good thing the hockey game came back on

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 24

Union of Fog Harvesters Local 16, “We Harvest for You”

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Mar. 10

Everybody takes things too seriously

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Feb. 18

What the free marketeers sold us was bad fish

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Feb. 11

No dogs on the ski trail in heaven either

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Jan. 28

Flat Earth Economic Society at work again

Part three

Forrest Johnson  |  Wednesday Jan. 6

The perfect oven and the holiday lutefisk

Forrest Johnson  |  Wednesday Dec. 30

We so smart we kill our world and don’t even know it—Part Three

Forrest Johnson  |  Thursday Dec. 10

I’m not quite sure what Santa’s bringing you

Forrest Johnson  |  Wednesday Dec. 2

Election for Exalted Shack Master always the same

Forrest Johnson  |  Tuesday Nov. 24

The Department of Mental Duress and the robots

Forrest Johnson  |  Wednesday Nov. 18

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