Bob Collins
High school sports can be a great teacher. In Oklahoma the lesson for the kids is ‘become a lawyer; there’s plenty of work.’ Read more →
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Archives for December 2014
A woman in Fargo is being accused of using the old syringe-in-your-bed trick. Read more →
If you haven’t finished your Christmas shopping yet, might we suggest you speed through the streets of Lowell, Michigan (east of Grand Rapids) — maybe have a car with illegally tinted windows to increase your odds of being stopped by the cops. Read more →
Boom! Take that, cyncical politicians who vilified the people who actually did something to help people this year. Read more →
Tough hockey or cheap shot? Minnesota Wild defenseman Keith Ballard appeared to suffer a seizure of some sort after he was checked last night by New York Islander forward Matt Martin.
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Kwame Ajamu didn’t kill anybody. But he spent 27 years in prison for murder anyway. Read more →
Someone in America thinks Hallmark is secretly embracing Nazis and Hallmark is too skittish too just say, ‘”sometimes intersecting lines are simply intersecting lines.’ Read more →
Every year, the Salvation Army red kettles turn up all sorts of interesting “contributions.” In these parts, someone regularly drops in thousands of dollars, and occasionally the gold coin.
This contribution, made in Massachusetts, might be the most poignant ever. Read more →
In its intention to right the wrongs against the returning Vietnam veteran in the ’70s, has the country gone overboard in saluting the soldier in 2014? Read more →
President Obama took over Stephen Colbert’s job last night. Read more →
A ‘last man standing’ club in Lake Elmo has dissolved. The ravages of time have not allowed the World War II vets to wait until there was only one left to toast the others. Read more →
WCCO is trying to raise some money today for the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge, and with good reason: Insurance companies call the shots on treatment programs. Read more →
Tony Oliva, the onetime Minnesota Twins star, has missed out on entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame by just one vote. Read more →
NPR is warning its employees that they can’t participate in a national march against police violence in Washington this weekend. Read more →
Every few years, we have to experience the minute-by-minute documentation of ‘royal watchers’ who are in ecstasy with this week’s visit to the United States of Prince William and Princess Kate. Read more →