It’s 1973 again out East. Today, gas lines are the norm as people try to find suddenly rare commodities in order to get from here to there…
Lines to get buses into New York City stretched for blocks…
Even if you could find gas, you wasted most of it waiting in traffic…
But nobody’s poking fun at some people now…
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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.
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