Rick Santorum looking for a "big win" in Minnesota on Drudge Report today.

​Minnesota is the lead headline on the Drudge Report today, which cheekily says Rick Santorum is looking for a "big win in Minn" at today's caucus.

The report links to a story with better-than-expected poll numbers for Santorum, including a projected 33% to 24% lead over Romney in Minnesota.
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Rolling Stone

The title "School of Hate" isn't doing anything for the Anoka-Hennepin image.

​In its current issue, Rolling Stone magazine becomes the latest big-name national media outlet to come down hard on the gay-bullying problem in the Anoka-Hennepin school district.

In "School of Hate: One Town's War on Gay Teens" reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely writes about the plight of gay students in Michele Bachmann's home district, joining past scrutinizing reports from Mother Jones and The New York Times.

"The Anoka-Hennepin school district finds itself in the spotlight not only for the sheer number of suicides but because it is accused of having contributed to the death toll by cultivating an extreme anti-gay climate," Erdely writes.

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Something seems fishy about all these lists.

​It seems like there's another "city superlative list" every week (the latest making the odd claim that we're the "13th most lesbianish"), so we decided to try to put them all together into one comparative infographic.

These studies are popular with readers, hence their proliferation. Many of them were one-time studies. Some corroborate each other, as with Forbes' assertion that we are the most relaxed metropolitan area, while Portfolio.com asserts that the Twin Cities are the 3rd least stressful.

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YouTube

Mitt Romney said a word beginning with "F," and he was angry.

​As you've no doubt heard, Mitt Romney got glitterbombed twice yesterday in Minnesota.

The second glitter shower provoked genuine anger on Romney's face, and he appeared to utter a word starting with "F."

Although the video is inconclusive -- the sound is inaudible and Romney's lips cannot be reliably read -- the second glitterbomber has posted a video and a tweet suggesting Romney called him a "faggot."
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Anne Stensrud was nearly four times over the limit

​Annie Stensrud has been charged with a DWI in connection with a December arrest for drunk driving.

Stensrud became a national celebrity in early December after slurring her way through the opening of a news broadcast for KEYC Mankato, a CBS-Fox affiliate. The embarrassing segment led viewers to speculate that she was drunk and made her the subject of a David Letterman Top Ten List.

A couple weeks later, on December 21, Stensrud was arrested in North Mankato for DWI. She had a blood alcohol concentration of .31 at the time of her arrest, which was just before noon. Now she's been formally charged with one gross misdemeanor count and two misdemeanor counts of drunken driving.

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No one's laughing all that hard now.

​Although neither internet celebrity anchor Annie Stensrud nor her home station KEYC ever confirmed or denied that she was drunk in a broadcast that went viral on YouTube, the latest developments in her story do not look good.

About a week ago, Stensrud was pulled over and arrested for a "probable cause DWI." That kind of language was about as ambiguous as the non-denial-denial that Stensrud released after her viral broadcast.

Now the sheriff's department has released the results of Stensrud's blood alcohol test and it's not pretty.

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Annie Stensrud can't catch a break.

​Annie Stensrud, the Mankato CBS-Fox affiliate reporter whose "drunk broadcast" went viral on YouTube was arrested last night for a DWI. According to Nicollet County Sheriff Dave Lange, Stensrud was stopped after someone called to report a possible drunk driver.

The arresting deputy didn't know it at the time, but he was about to pull over the internet's most famous slurring reporter.More >>

Annie Stensrud begins her fateful broadcast.

​The Internet has been tittering all week over a broadcast from a CBS-Fox affiliate in Mankato.

In the opener, reporter Annie Stensrud noticabely slurs her way through several stories, missing cues and stumbling through the usual on-air banter with a fellow reporter.

Since bumbling anchors are always an instant Internet sensation, it should come as no surprise that the clip went viral. Stensrud has been called out for being drunk on the air by everyone from Huffington Post to the Daily Mail in the UK. She even made for the entire set up for David Letterman's top ten list last night, "Top Ten Signs Your Local News Team Is Drunk."

Now, Stensrud is offering an explanation.

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WE FREAKING LOVE IT HERE!

​As we gird ourselves for winter, it seems worthwhile to mention that -- according to a new Men's Health article -- St. Paul people are way, way happier than the denizens of Miami, Las Vegas and Phoenix.

So they can take all that sunshine and cram it.

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Together forever (whereas forever is equivalent to 72 days)

​Kim Kardashian took a break from her divorce drama in Hollywood to whip up some divorce drama in "Yeehaw Minnesota" over the weekend, dropping in on estranged husband and occasional basketball player Kris Humphries at his Hopkins home.

The reality starlet took a deep breath and braved the hellish idea of a Twin Cities visit on Sunday, likely shedding a big butt-shaped teardrop when she heard no handlers, Hermes gift bags or psalm-waving greeters awaited her at MSP. 
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