This just seems so much nicer than the gangland death threat scenario (from a stranger) I stumbled into at Luce last night. Sometimes I almost forget (what sometimes feels like) half this town is replete with soon to not be ex-con human trafficking drug lords of the how and why are you still alive category. If you're white, like Don Ness clearly is, your chances of being caught up in the dark other half of Duluth just go way down. It's amazing the two parties can coexist so obliviously to one another. Just look at that shit eating grin, on Ness that is. It says, I might as well be mayor of some cute little  town in Norway about to celebrate Santa Claus, than of the human trafficking/drunk driving homicide capitol of Minnesota. 

But I would never judge a super smile from an attractive teacher lady in the same way I would a mayor who pretends to be wore out from the spotlight,  who is more probably bidding his time until his next big race.  Who am I to judge why Duluth has so many dirtbags or how the Red Herring has a magical forcefield to repel them?

Don will you play Santa Claus this year?  We can dress up Central Hillside like a cute Norwegian village.