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Emmer, MN Forward flap derails Target’s marketing of fall line

By Andy Birkey | 08.20.10 | 8:16 am

The marketing for Target’s Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular,  the retail giant’s official launch of its fall clothing line, has become hijacked by people upset with Target’s donation to MN Forward, a Republican-run independent expenditure committee that has endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tom…

Mondale sings opera as his rooster crows? Wikipedia ‘is bull,’ says ex-veep

By Chris Steller | 12.27.08 | 2:31 pm

In an interview with the Scandinavian-American cultural magazine Nordic Reach, former Vice President and U.S. Sen. Walter Mondale sounds fed up with social media and crowdsourcing. He was unaware he has a MySpace page until the interviewer tells…