Bob Collins
Grading the medal predictions, gas prices jump again, the impossible things that are possible, a Perseid postscript, and the return to South St. Paul.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
This afternoon, no doubt, we will listen to stories about Tim Allen’s life and walk away from the memorial service wishing we’d known him better, perhaps feeling a bit ashamed that in our online world, we didn’t know him at all.
When authorities know where you are, the predictable plane crash video, are we a melting pot or a boiling pot, Duluth watches Kansas City get the fiber diet, and if you want to slim down be a hunter/gatherer.
Vietnam didn’t get Bipes. The CIA didn’t get Bipes. And a knoll in a farmer’s field in Glencoe didn’t get Bipes. Mosquitoes almost did.
Stanley Crooks speaks, is hitting ‘like’ on Facebook free speech, menstruating women and camping, order a TV and get a gun, and the Hudson crash and warning signs.
It’s been seven years since Mitch Hedberg died. He may be the (intentionally) funniest person ever to come out of Saint Paul, Minnesota, until cocaine and heroin did him in. He was only 37.
Art and LRT
Now we’re getting to the good stuff. Today, the Curiosity rover delivered the first full-resolution images of its new home on Mars.
Who’ll help the Northland, why broadcasters can’t refuse offensive ads, one small step for the ‘Mohawk guy,’ happiness and the geeky kid, and pin collecting at the Olympics.
The disowning of RegBarc