Bob CollinsIn the aftermath of the attack on Sen. Rand Paul, allegedly in some sort of dispute over landscaping between neighbors in their gated community, we have no choice but to give the benefit of the doubt to unnamed political analysts who see a more sinister situation. A war of leaf blowers. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
A Texas reporter thinks the news media owes Sutherland an apology and says there must be a better way to cover stories like this. Read more →
World War II veteran Harold Zilmer of, Minot, N.D., was walking around the World War II memorial in Washington this week. He was on an Honor Flight, which flies veterans to the memorial and back on the same day.
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There are still too many people who believe the myth that showing you this picture and talking about what’s happening will lead more people to want to jump from a bridge. Read more →
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 →
The steady dreambeat, now, of sexual harassment allegations gives us pause to ask them a question: Who raised you?
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Jeff Ernst has a mental illness, he acknowledges in an op-ed in today’s Star Tribune, and he writes that we’re all too eager to accept the portrayal of the mentally ill alongside people who’ll kill innocent people.
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There was probably no chance at all that former President Barack Obama was going to be selected for a jury when he showed up for jury duty in Chicago today. Read more →
Once again, the video also shows that when people first arrive at the accident scene, their instinct was to take a video and sell it to TMZ. Read more →
We’ve heard this sort of thing before, but let’s play along anyway. In the not too distant future, we’ll get around in flying cars from Uber.
So says the BBC and Reuters today, claiming Uber and NASA are working on an aircraft to start demonstration flights by 2020, and service by the end of that decade.
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The entitlement of the cigarette smoker in one video. Read more →
Vito Perillo probably isn’t getting much attention in the listing of important election results around the country, but his lesson is a good one nonetheless. Read more →
Sometimes, we’re lucky enough to get a good snapshot of what love looks like. It looks like this.
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If we’re really interested in stopping mass murder, it’s well past time to start talking seriously about whether we take domestic abuse seriously enough.
Find a man who’ll beat up women and children, and you may well find a man capable of killing the defenseless. Read more →
It’s not clear what happened in today’s crash. But it’s important to remember that no plane is entirely safe and free from the mistakes a pilot makes, no matter what the marketing says. Read more →