Bob Collins
The freedom to kill each other, the military and its goats, what babies learn in the womb, the house always wins in the credit card business, and how does Jello work?
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By Bob Collins
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.
Does it significantly curtail your chance of getting the flu? Maybe, but not for the reason you think.
Was Flight 188 out of radio contact for three hours? Probably not.
Is Joe going to go?
Hip-hop Hamilton
Should others dictate what you see on the news, newsroom fights, glasses that translate foreign languages, the bunny soldier, and what do orchestra conductors do with all that waving?
An interview with the former American hostage in Iran on the 30th anniversary of their capture.
Should Glenn Beck be on NPR, one word to describe Obama, what’s right with us, how magicians teach scientists about autism, and why crabs trade sex for protection.