Bob Collins
There are two ways to look at today’s national controversy over the gaffe on Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ backside: (1) How dare they says John Hancock signed the Constitution? or (2) Hey, Americans are reading the Constitution! Read more →
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Archives for April 2014
Harvard Theological Review is reporting today that a text, written on Egyptian papyrus is likely real, including its reference to a married Jesus. Read more →
This sweet KARE 11 profile of Steve Gallivan, who left his hotel job to become the ‘ice cream man’ full time leaves us with a difficult question: Are we racing off to work today to do something we love? Read more →
Seventy-two years ago today, 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos soldiers were walking and dying on their forced march to a prison camp on the Bataan peninsula, one of the worst atrocities in modern war. Japanese guards shot or bayoneted any man who fell or stopped.
So yesterday, again, Walt Straka of Brainerd was thinking about the men who didn’t make it. One of them, Bryon Veillette of the Brainerd area, was his best friend, the Brainerd Dispatch said: Read more →
When you listen to members of Congress talk about the Internet and matters of technology, it can make your grandmother with the flashing ’12:00′ on her VCR sound like Steve Jobs. It’s not an act. Read more →
In The Atlantic’s and Marketplace’s partnership effort, James and Deb Fallows have been flying around the country, dropping down to see who lives there and what they do.
And therein lies today’s question — What Do You Do? — which they’ve found out has different meanings in different areas of the country. Read more →
Rita Sztukowski’s family members are fighting the cemetery over her remains. Read more →
The story about archivists at a university is, ostensibly, about handling the big collections that famous people leave, but it could just as easily be the stories of every family in coming years.
The hard drive full of photographs may serve as the digital pile of old pictures, it says. But who’s to say that 60 years from now, the hard drive will work? Or even exist? If they don’t, now what part of you is still around? Read more →
‘Princess Lacey,'” Lacey Holsworth, suffered from neuroblastoma, a fetal-nerve cell cancer. She wore a blond wig because chemotherapy took her hair.
Adreian Payne, a basketball player at Michigan State, met her during a players visit to the cancer ward at a hospital. Those visits are usually brief and then everyone moves along. But Payne didn’t. Read more →
Meet Derrick Gordon. He’s one of a kind. He’s the only NCAA Division I men’s basketball player to announce that he’s gay. Read more →
Your parents must be so proud, Iowa State students.
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A major security flaw has been found in websites that is exposing usernames, passwords and maybe credit card numbers. The Heartbleed bug went undetected for more than two years and there’s no indication that hackers actually stole your personal information, but they know now. Read more →
The passage of a higher minimum wage bill has border businesses singing the blues. Read more →
A few years ago, a local knucklehead in high school invited porn stars to be his date at the senior prom. When one accepted, that forced school officials to crack down on whom students can invite to the prom.
And that’s why Jack Jablonski, the Benilde-St. Margaret hockey player who was paralyzed during a game, had to depend on common sense prevailing when he asked ESPN’s Michelle Beadle to be his date. Read more →
There never was any substantial evidence against Larson in the shooting of Cold Spring police officer Thomas Decker, but that didn’t stop police from naming him in a quick news conference after the shooting, nor stop news organizations from tossing aside the policy of not naming suspects until they’re actually charged with a crime.
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