Maj. Sidney Freedman has died.
Allan Arbus, the actor who played the psychiatrist on M*A*S*H was 95 years old, a fact sure to make the fans of perhaps the finest TV series ever feel more than a little bit older.
The last snow of the season hasn’t quite melted yet. We’ve still got some time to take his advice.
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