It was disappointing to sit through Monday night’s special City Council meeting that resulted in the no-cause termination of Administrator Greg La Fond. Beyond being disappointing (because all the discussion went on behind closed doors) — it was probably illegal.Whether people agree or disagree with the end result, it is too bad for the 30 or so people in attendance and the readers of this paper that the real reasons for termination couldn’t be on the record. The "rolling quorum" of decision makers who met in small groups violates the principle, if not the letter, of Minnesota’s open meeting law.I am sure the Council was afraid of lawsuits for openly discussing personnel issues. But by meeting privately, they violated the request of La Fond, who wanted the discussion open. I won’t go on and on, shaking my finger at our tired and stressed Council members. I just hope they don’t operate in the same way in the future. And I also hope they don’t share things with their coffee shop friends while closing the meeting to the less privileged of us who still want to know public business.Speaking of furrowing my browTo me, "He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother" was a song about a piggy-back ride with a fat sibling … and I thought Credence Clearwater Revival was really giving directions to a "bathroom on the right." So Gwen Stefani’s new hit "Hollaback Girl" has proven puzzling to me. For many songs, I either hear the lyrics wrong, or my literal brain misinterprets them.Bachman Turner Overdrive’s "Takin’ Care of Business" could just as well be about bakin' carrot biscuits. ("Everyday!") And many people thought the Hendrix song "Purple Haze" had the words, "’Scuse me while I kiss this guy" instead of "’Scuse me while I kiss the SKY."At first I thought Stefani’s song was "hollow-back" girl, meaning a girl who lacked a round rear end, perhaps. After a few times, though, I can now make out the lyrics … but still don’t understand them. I think it’s about cheerleaders fighting over nasty rumors … and then they eat fruit.Until performers start enunciating properly and until writers come up with lyrics easier to interpret, I’ll have to rely on a karaoke screen to know the words and for my cooler friends to tell me the meaning.