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People are jerks

People are jerks · Sports

Philadelphia fans maintain reputation in NFC Championship game violence

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 21, 2018, 6:17 PM Jan 21, 2018
23

We’re going to have plenty of these sorts of videos, we suspect. There’s nothing classy about Philadelphia sports fans and Vikings fans were warned it might be a bad idea to wear the purple at the Vikings-Eagles game. Read more →

People are jerks

We need more newspapers

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 12, 2018, 7:01 AM Jan 12, 2018
4

Americans hate their news media. But some of its most wealthy are running cons, stealing people’s financial future and running off to Naples. Only one institution is calling them on it.
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People are jerks

Tired of waiting to get off plane, man jumps on wing

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 3, 2018, 6:32 AM Jan 3, 2018
11

We made it three days into the new year before we got our first ‘stupid airline passenger tricks’ entry. Read more →

People are jerks

The underbelly of Christmas light shows exposed

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2017, 7:01 AM Dec 20, 2017
108

If more people in Minnesota knew how to have a good time without getting drunk, maybe the ginormous holiday light display in Minnetrista would still be lit. Read more →

People are jerks

Actor stirs Islamophobes with Mall of America video

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 14, 2017, 11:35 AM Nov 14, 2017
41

Actor James Woods has no time for the ideals of the United States as a great melting pot. How else to explain his tweet? Read more →

People are jerks · Sports

Broadcaster under fire for saying Halladay got what he deserved

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2017, 9:18 AM Nov 9, 2017
10

Everything that’s wrong with bro-talk radio can pretty much be summed up with a Boston sportscaster’s rant against Roy Halladay on the day after Halladay — about as decent a person as ever existed — crashed his plane into the Gulf of Mexico and died. Read more →

People are jerks

How not to be that guy

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2017, 8:52 AM Nov 9, 2017
26

The steady dreambeat, now, of sexual harassment allegations gives us pause to ask them a question: Who raised you?
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People are jerks

A KKK fan walks into a North Dakota bar…

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 31, 2017, 8:36 AM Oct 31, 2017
47

Maybe there was a time when dressing up as a Ku Klux Klan member would have earned some scorn, but, at least in Horace, N.D. (southwest of Fargo), those days are apparently over. Read more →

People are jerks · Sports

‘Who’s your daddy?” taunt idea costs coach his job

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2017, 11:43 AM Oct 20, 2017
12

Fired Maine high school football coach Duane Greaton says he wants to tell his side of the story and we’re all ears, waiting to find out why the defensive unit of the Gray-New Gloucester football team was told to yell ‘who’s your daddy?’ every time they got to the quarterback for Yarmouth High School.

The quarterback has two mothers. Read more →

People are jerks

Tourist boats set adrift in Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2017, 11:16 AM Sep 21, 2017
1

That was some fun a person had overnight when they invested time and energy and risked their freedom in order to set two tourist and event boats adrift in Superior Bay.

So what if it’s Justin Steinbach’s livelihood, eh, kid?
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