While Mark Dayton's place in the Senate was not strong by 2001, his actions afterwards did nothing to prove he was a worthwhile successor to Rod Grams. I particularly loved when he closed his Washington office during the anthrax scare, though no other senator closed office. Clearly any terrorist will choose the weakest senators to kill first (just like wolves attacking sheep). In any case, he isn't planning for reelection maybe we can get another senator to complement Norm Coleman.

-Trevor

There is some good news in the world, unfortunately it will not bring my wheel back. A couple days ago, one of my colleagues noticed a scene outside of McClelland (the building the department is housed in). He noticed that a man was being arrested after being caught stealing two bikes from the same rack where my wheel was stolen. That of course does not necessarily imply that he was the same man, but is kind of a neat to see that the likely thief will at least get a record (though little will come out of a bike theft, but anyways...). On another note, all of my midterms are complete and now I only have finals left and of course, the prelim exams.

-Trevor