Somewhere under all that oil, is a bird. Assuming your blood pressure can take it, the Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog has must-see images from the oil spill.
“Why wasn’t there a plan for this?” The Current’s Mary Lucia asked me during our news chat today. “Because there’d also have to be a plan to ignore all of the other plans that were designed to prevent it,” I said.
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.
Bob Collins