Everything is forever on the Internet, so there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen a post like this in your Facebook or Twitter feed and perhaps you’ve even dutifully followed the instruction to repost it without questioning anything about it. ‘Make her pay,’ the instructions say, and people online are only too happy to spread the hate in return.’ Read more →
From the ‘Department of I Don’t Hardly’, we note the Mankato Free Press article today that indicates there’s a market in that community for people to come to your house and clean while naked. Because of course there is.
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Here’s your daily dose of sweetness. Fill in your own words.
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Some community members say they’re shocked it would ever happen in their city, but someone must’ve thought Minnesota’s Iron Range communities would be a good spot to recruit new members to the Ku Klux Klan. Read more →
It’s always been a little difficult to determine who is behind the Save Lake Calhoun newspaper ads that have lobbied against a name change of the lake that honors former Vice President John C. Calhoun, the architect of forced Native American relocation and an ardent supporter of slavery. Now we know.
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What makes the story of Gavin Becker and Olivia Toft particularly delightful is the continuing role that Eighth Crow Wing Lake plays in the history of love. Read more →
Welcome to the world, Mohameds, Henrys, and Isabellas. Make it better, although you’ve got your work cut out for you. Read more →
NPR’s Bob Mondello took and tweeted this photo of the All Things Considered staff and retiring host Robert Siegel. It is packed with so many more than 1,000 words. This picture, however, comes with words. Read more →
Poor Domenico Montanaro, NPR’s lead political editor, found out the hard way that a large segment the public radio audience likes things just the way they’ve always been. A touch of humor? That’s risky business. Read more →
2018 is off to a lousy start. Piper the airport dog is dead. Read more →
Around 1955 or so, Warren ‘Bud’ Bushway put up the American flag on a spiffy new pole outside his home in St. Louis Park.
For 59 years, he raised and lowered the flag each day on Cedar Lake Road. Read more →
The last Delta/Northwest 747 jet to fly into Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport to great fanfare last month made its last flight today, a trip from Atlanta to a boneyard in Arizona where it will be stripped and left to become dust in the desert. Read more →
Fatherhood has changed a lot on recent decades as men take on more of an upbringing role in the home. In the workplace? Not so much, the Boston Globe reports. It says a ‘wave’ of lawsuits has highlighted unequal treatment in the workplace. Fathers can’t get a break when they have to reconcile the needs of their employers with the needs of their children. Read more →
If you’re a dog intent on running off in frigid Christmas Eve weather, Sioux Falls is a good place to do it. Read more →
The police in Altoona, Wis., just on the other side of Eau Claire, no doubt caused heart palpitations when they pulled people over yesterday. Nothing a ham can’t cure, though. Read more →
Bob Collins