Bob CollinsWe are choosing to take some comfort in the knowledge that no matter what fresh hell awaits us in the news this week, we are still a people who will gather in the pouring rain, to watch a dog chase sheep from one end of the field to another, dispelling the notion that we return to work today to work like a dog. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Timewasters
Without snail slime, life itself would be impossible. Read more →
The dairy industry in these parts is in rough shape. Milk prices are low and there’s too much of it.
What the industry needs is a little more snootiness. Read more →
Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres went shopping at a CVS and found that you can drink boxed wine for up to six weeks after you open it. Read more →
In Norway, the sport is called dødsing – or ‘death diving’. Read more →
Youth is wasted on the young, and there’s nothing better than being a kid in the summer while the old crumbs go off to work.
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Because it’s a pig surfing, it’s a nobody-goes-to-work Friday, and there’s no news today, that’s why. Read more →
Why? Because it’s Friday and Fridays are for ducks and the kids that chant ‘let’s go ducks!,’ that’s why.
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Not being smart enough to play chess, I have no clue what’s going on here other than this video of a chess grand master hustled a hustler in one of New York’s ubiquitous street chess games is the greatest thing on the Internet today. Read more →
Because it’s Friday, it’s January, and it’s a surfing pug, that’s why.
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These are tough times on the farm, we’re told. Commodity prices are down and the harvest again was way too bountiful. Many farmers are now losing money.
It’s not that we disbelieve any of the stories we’re hearing. We just wonder what it is that farmer Derek Klingenberg is doing right to make the business consistently look so gosh darned fun. Read more →
Google set up a zip wire in the Amazon rainforest to capture new 360-degree images of the trees from root to tip.
The results are stunning: A ‘street view’ look inside the jungle.
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There are certain times in the news business that define us as a people.
At this hour — and I don’t know how long this feed will be up — the nation has stopped what it’s doing to watch llamas being chased. Read more →
The Department of Natural Resources reports that its Eagle Cam in the Twin Cities — it doesn’t say where — has shown the first signs of life. Read more →
Just four more days until Netflix uploads the third season of House of Cards, the Kevin Spacey series of political intrigue and lust for power.
Here. Entertain yourself while you wait with the story of Frank Underwolf wanting to take over the white house of bricks. Read more →