Out of commission

Have been sick the last few days, which is why blogging has been minimal. There's some bad crud going around the Twin Cities right now and I got it. A few very brief thoughts -- hope to resume normal blogging soon:

• If his first State of the State address is any indication, Mark Dayton is in waaay over his head. Mitch Berg does a suitable fisking here.
• If the Huffington Post is worth north of $300 million, I bet this feature is worth at least a greenback dollar. I guess the biggest surprise to me about the deal that Arianna Huffington made is this -- AOL is still in business? Wow, who knew. Meanwhile, the market doesn't think much of the deal, either.
• Meanwhile, if you haven't had enough of football, here's a link to an article at CBS Sports that should be good for an argument or two -- writer Pete Prisco puts together an all-time power ranking for NFL teams. Let's just say Packers fans will like his conclusions more than fans of the Purple. I'd also say I thought he was being unfair to the Vikings, but maybe I'm just feeling magnanimous these days.