Bob Collins
Modist Brewing Company in Minneapolis got a cease-and-desist order in the sweetest way from a titan of the brewing industry.
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Isn’t this pretty much a metaphor for Detroit?
They tried to blow up the ancient Pontiac Silverdome this morning. They had one job. Read more →
You probably know how the routine goes if you’ve ever been in the coffee roasting business. You throw the beans in the roaster, get ready to turn on the heat, and remove the Snowy Owl that’s looking back at you from inside the cooling the vent where the bean chaff is collected.
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Solve this photo mysteryThe Rochester Post Bulletin has announced it will no longer issue a printed Friday edition. It will publish only five days a week. Read more →
Like their counterparts at CBS This Morning last week, the remaining hosts of NBC’s Today Show this morning tackled the firing of their co-host — in this case Matt Lauer — up front. Read more →
This buck, a 10-pointer, was shot on Sunday in Lanesboro, Minn. For about a year now, the deer has been seen on trail cameras and people noticed the red tags but didn’t know what they said. Now they do. Read more →
Now this public service message, courtesy of the Sudbury (Mass.) Police Department: Don’t do this. Read more →
Not that we need a reminder that we could all be better fathers but we could all work harder at being like Bailey Sellers’ dad.
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The story of how Gilbert Mancheski finally agreed to hit the road in today’s Pioneer Press has its head-shaking moment for why his initial offer to sell out to the city fell apart. Read more →
The Church of Sweden has decided that God is beyond human form and so it will no longer refer to … him… as …. him or he. Read more →
Sure, go ahead and call Mike Hughes all the names he’s probably heard before but we’re here today to celebrate his passion, an antidote to America’s pervasive can’t-do spirit.
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These are sneakers. Unless they’re on your feet, they don’t do anything but sit there. They don’t make the coffee so it’s waiting for you when you get up. They won’t dust and vacuum. They won’t repair your broken marriage. They’re just sneakers. And kind of silly looking ones too. Read more →
It was a bad case of the Mondays for the production crew of The Weather Channel this morning. They’d set up at the perfect spot to broadcast today’s demolition of the Georgia Dome on its Facebook page.
For forty minutes, the channel provided coverage, until the big moment. Read more →
If you couldn’t do what you love doing, what else would you do?
Hands up if the answer is ‘blowing up stadiums’. Read more →