Bob CollinsA little girl rescued a baby woodpecker from being injured by her cat in Virginia. She almost paid a hefty price.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The view from the ledge
It’s a good life when the worst that can happen is Caribou Coffee runs out of cards for its summer sticker promotion that gives people a free cup of joe every so often.
The video of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defending an appointment to the New Jersey Superior Court is starting to catch fire on the Intertubes.
It started as a joke, but maybe there’s some life to the ‘stop the wave’ movement that’s growing in — where else? — Texas?
When kids paint, talking cake instead of taxes, the power of the Facebook status update, the circus and the Age of Abundance, and the Somalia famine.
Bridge memorial defaced
For some reason, this is one of those days when a reminder that things that predate us and our institutions will likely continue after we’re an archeological dig, is oddly comforting.
The message-in-a-bottle mystery, the retirement crisis, leadership qualities of the mentally ill, forgiveness in Olivia, and the problem with ‘Wigger Wednesday’.
Did the politicians ever talk to the financial ‘experts’ before coming up with the ‘solution’ to the debt crisis?
Saint Paul light-rail-construction workers, you’re not going to let Gary Russo of New York outshine you, are you?