Bob Collins
If there is one thing that should’ve gotten President Obama’s speechwriter canned, it’s the quote about ‘you didn’t build that,’ when referring to American business.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for August 2012
The caption supplied with this Getty Images photo of a protest at the U.S. consulate in Hyderabad India said these Idian Sikhs “shout anti-US slogans.” Other pictures from India also make reference to “anti-U.S. slogans,” but none indicates what would constitute an appropriate slogan in the aftermath of the killings in Wisconsin. Manjit Singh, president Read more →
Getting a giant rover to Mars? Easy. Getting more women on the front line of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Hard.
The (likely faked) Cheerios protest
The lure of human achievement, special education, the headache that won’t go away, Duluth to Duluth via the Great Lakes, and the MP3 olympics.
Having light-rail construction outside the window has given many of us the World Headquarters of NewsCut an unparalleled opportunity to ‘eavesdrop’ on people living their lives in interesting ways.
Olympic ads hit and miss
A sad sign of the times: The Houston office of homeland security has distributed a video on how to survive a mass shooting…
Lessons from the LED bulb, waiting on Mars, aiming low for happiness, return of the photo booth, and the shelf cloud.