Bob CollinsA lot of people are too good to bother bending over to pick up a penny.
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.
Where boys don’t fit in, why do you do this, the smoking ban report card, the medal hunter, and just sing the song.
So if you’re having a hard time getting your head around the near discovery of Higgs boson, it’s OK.
The people of Prescott, the dirt we’re breathing, when rules are rules, guerrilla gardening in Fargo, and Marilyn visits the IHOP.
Perhaps the neatest thing about today’s announcement that scientists have discovered a particle ‘consistent’ with the Higgs boson theory, is that the man who came up with the theory is alive to hear about it.
We the purple
Unless something has changed in the last year, on July 4th this year, we’ll learn that one in four Americans doesn’t know much about July 4th.
In ‘A Face in the Crowd,’ Andy Griffith left a film that makes us pause and consider what political punditry has done to us all.
10 facts about the heat that won’t make you feel any cooler
A postcard from winter, word of the day: Derecho, the gay anchor, the drive-in, and the worst in workplace jargon.
Today, the Bad Astronomy blog asks, ‘when does weather become climate?’ And then answers, ‘now.’