But the Night Riders of the Third Klan have declared war on the Twin Cities, and since that\u2019s a place with its own rich musical legacy I think that should be reflected in all those supercut video edits of ICE buffoonery. I mean, how can you look at this \u2014<\/p>\n
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\u2014 and not think of Morris Day and the Time<\/a> teaching us all about a brand new dance called the Bird? And since these scenes unfold not far from Paisley Park, if you\u2019re setting them to music, how can you resist using \u201cAll 7 and we\u2019ll watch them fall \/ They stand in the way of love and we will smoke them all \u2026<\/a>\u201c?<\/p>\n So much amazing music from the Twin Cities to work with, music that can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile<\/a>. It\u2019s good American music, and that will help Americans as they struggle to defend America against ICE.<\/p>\n \u2022 You can tell a lot about a guy from the way he talks about his exes \u2014 ex-girlfriends and, especially, ex-wives. Generally speaking, the words he uses to describe them are the words he uses to describe to himself most women, the words he uses to think of them and to categorize and characterize them all in his mind.<\/p>\n I appreciate that relationships can end badly and that \u201cshe done me wrong\u201d can sometimes be an accurate description of that bad ending, but there\u2019s a difference between \u201cshe done me wrong\u201d and \u201cI hate that evil bitch.\u201d A guy who sounds like a misogynist when he\u2019s talking about his ex is likely to be an eyelash away from being a misogynist when talking about any other woman.<\/p>\n As I told my daughters, pay attention to how a guy talks about his exes, because that\u2019s how he\u2019s going to talk about you some day. When a guy gets riled up and mean talking about his exes, that\u2019s a red flag.<\/p>\n Back when I first relocated this blog to Patheos, I interacted a lot with another of the \u201cprogressive evangelical\u201d bloggers here, a guy who came from the \u201cemerging church\u201d world and often posted a lot of interesting thoughts and questions and insights. I knew him only from his writing and his posts and a handful of emails in a group chat. I liked him. He seemed like a decent fellow.<\/p>\n But then one day he wrote about how family courts were biased against fathers and a little red flashing light went off in the corner of my eye. That post was relatively temperate, and I couldn\u2019t quite put my finger on exactly why it made me recoil. But something off about it just nagged at me, and so I put a pause on linking to his blog as I tried to figure out what. And then, after seeing this subject come up there a few more times, with more of a snarl to it, I dropped it from my RSS feed.<\/p>\n A year or so later, I read an old post here interacting with something he had written and thought \u201cI wonder whatever happened to that guy?<\/a>\u201d Oh.<\/p>\n You can tell a lot about a guy from the way he talks about his exes.<\/p>\n \u2022 Related to that<\/a>:<\/p>\n