Bob CollinsSometimes, we’re lucky enough to get a good snapshot of what love looks like. It looks like this.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for November 2017
If we’re really interested in stopping mass murder, it’s well past time to start talking seriously about whether we take domestic abuse seriously enough.
Find a man who’ll beat up women and children, and you may well find a man capable of killing the defenseless. Read more →
It’s not clear what happened in today’s crash. But it’s important to remember that no plane is entirely safe and free from the mistakes a pilot makes, no matter what the marketing says. Read more →
Dick Gordon was the pilot on Apollo 12, the second mission to the moon on which Charles Conrad and lunar module pilot, Alan Bean got to bounce around on the moon while Gordon, like Michael Collins before him, got to orbit the moon by himself for a few days. He died on Monday. Read more →
One of the reasons we have people in public service we don’t like is because we have no interest in being an alternative. Read more →
In a world full of corporate phonies, few are as fraudulent as Mickey Mouse and the company that’s amassed a fortune and immense corporate power and isn’t afraid to use it to intimidate a free press into submission. Read more →
A roundabout in Worthington, Minn., was apparently too confusing for the driver of an RV. So he/she simply ignored it and took the direct route. Read more →
Debi Berger, of Moorhead, didn’t get the last look at Christmas lights that her daughter and friends tried to arrange before she succumbed to liver cancer on Saturday.
Britney Berger had desperately tried to get people to put up Christmas lights early to ease her mom’s anxiety and fulfill a last wish.
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America has had so many wars that we don’t know what to call them anymore. Is it Gulf War I an Gulf War II? Or do we just refer to them now as the Gulf War, and Afghanistan, and Iraq? Read more →
Since the story of Michael Oreskes surfaced last week, I’ve been waiting for NPR’s ombudsman to check in with an assessment of how NPR covered the story of sexual harassment allegations against the newsroom boss, who has since been fired. Today, Elizabeth Jensen did.
Third-parent adoption is legal in California. So, Zeke Hausfather and Avary Kent and David Jay are now the proud parents of Octavia. Read more →
She’s 12 years old and was featured last night on CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcast, host Scott Pelley acknowledging that humankind doesn’t know enough about the brain to understand why she’s a virtuoso on the piano and the violin and why she’s been able to compose an opera and why she hears notes in her head the way the rest of us hear words. Read more →
There’s more to aviation than fighter jets, but people don’t seem as interested in looking up anymore unless there’s lots of noise and the appearance of danger. Read more →
A gift shop in Bemidji that raised money for the poor of Eastern Uganda is closing, and that’s bad news for the homeless of Bemidji. Read more →
Upon further review, perhaps it wasn’t in Juli Briskman’s best interest to exercise her freedom of expression when on a recent bike ride that occurred when the president’s motorcade passed.
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