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Minnesota's budget deficit is an unexpectedly large $4.5B. It's so bad that governor Tim "Death Before Taxes" Pawlenty has started to change his tune on education funding. Bizarrely, the Vikings apparently plan on keeping up the good fight for public money to help pay for a new stadium.

Uhhh, no?

On a non-related note, I ate in the GE cafeteria for the first time today. It's got a real 70's corporate feel to it with a harvest gold color scheme and all that. Not a lot of people were eating at the same time we were, so it was almost kind of depressing. They do have a salad bar, so that's kinda fun. No chocolate milk, though.

On another non-related note, two of our dinner plates at home have gone missing. We used to have 8, now we have 6. I've looked everywhere and can't find them. WTF? How do you lose two plates? My working hypothesis is that I threw them away by mistake when cleaning up one night. That'd be pretty dumb, but I've done worse. Like the time I backed out of the garage and ran over our Weber.