Coleen Rowley's blog

When McCain began flooding his fear-mongering robo-calls into Minnesota, my friend Terry Rogers and I wanted to start a new "Do Not Call" list. Instead Terry wrote this letter to the editor which was published yesterday in the Northfield News:

Dear Twin Cities Peace Vigil Participants:

How does that song go? Something like: “If I had a banner, I’d hold it in the morning… All over this land!” Especially with the national focus here due to the RNC. Remember patriots can't stay home!

Walt Disney was right about something: "It IS a small world after all". It just seems that Stanley Milgram's "six degrees of connectedness" theory is often proven to only be two or three degrees. Example: I just found out that Susan Cowsill and her husband, Russ Broussard, who are playing a benefit concert for our "Women Against Military Madness" group this Sunday (July 6) beginning at 5 pm at the Minnesota Music Cafe, also contributed after the Minneapolis I-35W bridge came down to this “Musicians for Minneapolis” 57 song CD, the proceeds of which went to the Bridge Disaster Relief Effort.

I posted the following piece originally on the Huffington Blog yesterday. I should add that Sen. Klobuchar is not alone in having signed these terrible resolutions that could help pave the way for Bush to launch his 3rd war in 6 1/2 years, this time on Iran. Klobuchar is joined as a co-sponsor by Republican Senator Norm Coleman and Republican Representatives John Kline and James Ramstad.

Pop icon and Americana singer/songwriter Susan Cowsill will headline a fundraiser for Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) at the Minnesota Music Café on July 6. From 5 to 8 p.m. Mark your calendars now for this very special event. Local bands Gospel Gossip and Rick Robot will also perform.

In honor of Father's Day yesterday, we got a lot of fathers and children of fathers out on the St. Paul footbridges. We ended up covering these two perches over Highway 94 leading into St. Paul. Since the different themed displays were about 1 ½ miles apart, it created a real one-two color punch for motorists below.