Bob Collins
What’s the first sign that America’s love affair with its heroes has gone too far? When they do cameos in music videos.
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.
The National Quality Minority Forum today unveiled its National HIV/AIDS atlas, showing county-level prevalence data of the illness throughout the United States. The licensing agreement is pretty restrictive — you need to register and, technically, you’re barred from linking to the site — which would seem to defeat the purpose of providing more information. It’s Read more →
Inside the Church of Scientology, when the law is based on a lie, John Hodgman wows ’em in Washington, the end of the Lowry Avenue Bridge, and the tombstones tell the tale.
What happened on Saturday, an Iran scholar says, goes beyond a dispute between factions.
A good use of YouTube by a Minnesota agency. The Metropolitan Airports Commission has produced a series of videos about each of the six “reliever” airports in the Twin Cities. Here’s the feature on Crystal, for example.
Somali bombings, losing Uncle Walter, the unfunny comedian, the funny comedian, and why rats gamble.
Iran protests
The U.S. Senate today passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation.
The story of a dead airline pilot isn’t the big deal — safetywise — that people are making it out to be.
The joy of watching Midwest weather, killing house flies, another day in Iran, who would use solipsistic in a sentence, and can you cure Alzheimer’s by drilling a hole in your head.