{"id":884,"date":"2005-06-28T19:59:15","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=884"},"modified":"2005-06-28T19:59:15","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:59:15","slug":"watching_the_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Watching The Sausage Get Made (Or Not)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Gross of Fresh Air did a recent interview<\/a> with the director of the docu Murderball and Mark Zupan, one of the film’s featured athletes. I listened to it today and Gross does a good job of eliciting responses from Zupan on a range of issues including the sport itself, adjusting to life with a disability, society’s perceptions of disability, and sexuality.
\nI may have been a bit overly optimistic when I wrote that a partial state government shutdown in Minnesota would be averted. There has been some progress<\/a> towards a deal, but even if there was an agreement tonight, there isn’t enough time to get the appropriate bills drafted, passed, and signed before midnight Friday. A lot of legislators have expressed frustration at being shut out of negotiations, which are being conducted in private between the governor and three or four legislative leaders. I can’t help but agree, at least to some extent. It makes little sense to have a special session if 95% of the legislative body has nothing more to do than sit in their offices and check their e-mail. I’m not sure a partial shutdown will hurt anyone politically, especially if it’s over by the end of the holiday weekend. But if July 5 comes around and state offices are still closed, people might start to take notice.
\nI’ll certainly notice, especially since I only put in for enough vacation time to cover me through July 6. There’s no way I’m going to use up all my vacation time to accommodate the truculence of a few politicos in St. Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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