Bob Collins
Hurricanes and climate science, why do we burn things when our teams win, measuring racism on the basketball court, the ethics of unmasking, and killing time on the Mississippi.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for October 2012
If you chase down your wife and shoot her to death in the daylight of a strip mall, you’ll get your name and picture in the paper, and nobody will suggest it will lead to more husbands killing their wives. But if you take your own life, alone, outside a school, you’re invisible.
Tig Notaro’s now-famous stand-up routine after she found out she has cancer, forces us to consider how we press on through the times.
The science of misinformation, are the kids moving back in or moving back out, are you even nice, the first dance, and empowering Latinos.
Where are the funny conservatives?
Dead or alive
Radiolab responds, Wellstone’s moment, the swing ovulation vote, spreading Kevin’s love, and the kid who wanted to build a car.
There’ll be no state tournament for the Prairie Seeds squad, but not because of the brawl.
Voter ID and the person in the military