Sharon Stiteler, aka @birdchick on Twitter, has posted this fascinating commentary that someone spray painted on a wall in Minneapolis…
Is it? Are liquor and cigarettes the key to survival?
Looters have an uncanny ability to justify their crime, and to write graffiti about it. Here’s Oakland, 2009 (via Jared Shelburne on Flickr):
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