Well, here we are. The opening Sunday of football season for the NFL. A chance to follow through on the off-season promises not to support the NFL because you don’t like the owners holding up local taxpayers for a new stadium, or the meager punishment handed out to those players who beat their wives and Read more →
The news today that the owners of Bachman’s Floral Gift & Garden Centers are interested in getting into the medical marijuana business will certainly present a challenge to the company, whose brand isn’t usually associated with pot, even if it’s legal. Read more →
As we suspected, Californians didn’t deserve to get Dunkin’ Donut franchises before Minnesota. Read more →
An aviation mystery playing out today is Cuba’s problem to unravel, at least for a little while yet. The North American Air Defense Command said on its Facebook page that it followed an “unresponsive” business jet until it entered Cuba’s airspace this afternoon. As of 11:30 a.m. EDT today, September 5th, 2014, two F-15 fighter Read more →
Let us now consider this question, thanks to the lonely trash hauler whose trash inexplicably has ended up on I-494 at Excelsior Blvd., at this hour: What’s the worst job in Minnesota?
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In an editor’s note, The Economist acknowledged a slavery-sympathetic bood review shouldn’t have been posted. It also reposted the review ‘in the interest of transparency.’ Read more →
Today’s installment of “why can’t things be the way they were back in the day” comes from NPR, where Juan Vidal asks a good question: Where’s the poetry? In generations past, poets have fought brutality and injustice with the power of the word. There’s still a lot of poetry out there, but it’s not being Read more →
U of M climatologist Mark Seeley reported on his Facebook page this week that there were only two days of 90-degree highs in the Twin Cities this summer. In other parts of the state — Rochester, Morris, Albert Lea and Duluth, for example — there weren’t any. This, we’re told, has only happened eight other Read more →
Daniel Ashley Pierce, 19, made $93,000 in the last few weeks by getting thrown out of his home by his mother. He’s gay. The Georgia teenager posted a YouTube video late last month of his mother telling him to “get out” earlier this week on GoFundMe, in order to raise money for living expenses. (Obscenities Read more →
Though we are often powerless to prevent that which we can’t see coming, we have full control over how we respond to it. Read more →
It’s probably just as well that the book reviewer for The Economist didn’t sign the review in this week’s edition of Cornell professor Edward Baptist’s book, “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.” The magazine has never believed in bylines. The unsigning writer makes a case, apparently, that slavery Read more →
I saw a couple of tweets over the weekend from some male funny people who couldn’t understand why Joan Rivers, who died today, was getting Twitter love as she lay in a coma. Sure, she was a funny person and all, but her act was “mean.” Maybe. Maybe not. Comedy is subjective. Humanity shouldn’t be. Read more →
Decades later, Douglas Ward was awarded the French Legion of Honor, the highest medal of honor from the French government, for his service during World War II. Read more →
In today’s show, the part of the Federal Aviation Administration is being played by a ram, which got its name for a good reason. The part of the intrusive and inconsiderate quadcopter operator is being played by an intrusive and inconsiderate quadcopter operator. Related: College student arrested for flying drone over football game (The Hill).
It’s 2014 — well past the time when the homo sapiens should be able to master the not-really-that-hard concept of recycling.
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