Dear Internet Friends,
First off – thank you for coming to the website. For some of you that took quite a bit of effort. Congratulations on getting here!
But now that you’ve arrived, what can you expect from The Al Franken Website? Merchandising? Well, not yet!
Content? Yes! And by that I’m not asking if you’re content. Far from it!
We live in disturbing times. Fortunately, all that can be cured by electing a Democrat to the White House and a majority in the Senate.
Just kidding. Even electing a Bernie Sanders or an Amy Klobuchar or a Mike Bloomberg president and getting 50, 51, or (outside shot) 52 U.S. Senators will not fix all our problems. That’s up to you!
By regularly visiting this website and keeping all your New Years resolutions, you will lose weight, get in shape, become closer with friends and family, and sink into a deep, dark depression far less frequently.
But it’s up to you. Read the content (there’s that word again) and listen to the Podcast on this website, and you will become slightly more informed and sometimes entertained or even both at the same time! You will have opportunities to help with worthy causes – like filling the library of the new Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig Indian school in northern Minnesota. And helping us provide service dogs to veterans and others.
Well, enough about the website! It’s time to explore it and to have the most fulfilling fourteen hours of your lifetime!
This week, Paul Tough talks about how the college admissions system preserves our nation’s economic and social disparities
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Enjoy the website!
Veteran Washington observer Norm Ornstein tracks the erosion of norms that once allowed Washington to work. From Newt Gingrich instructing Republicans to demonize Democrats as “sick, corrupt, traitors” to Mitch McConnell denying Merrick Garland a hearing. The abandonment of fact-based evidence, shutting down the government, using the filibuster to…
The Felicity Huffman/Lori Loughlin scandal pales in comparison to the scandal of our higher education admissions system, which protects the privileged and leaves everyone else behind.
Fittingly, today you will be reading testaments to the brilliant career of Buck Henry, one of the truly great comedic minds of his generation. You will hear about so many of the iconic movies and TV shows that Buck created, wrote, and directed – groundbreaking movies and TV shows like…
Here they are! The grandkids. By age – Joe Greenwald (6), Jacob Franken (4), Avery Greenwald (3), and Claire Franken (9 months). In the center photo, prepping the apples for her classic apple pie, are me and Franni (age unknown). But back to the Grandkids. We feel so fortunate to have…
John Roberts will preside over the impeachment trial of President Trump in the United States Senate. That’s because Roberts is the Chief Justice of the United States. That’s what it says in the Constitution. Not “Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.” He is the Chief Justice of the United States….
