Bob CollinsHow is this possible? Easy. You don’t find a job, or you find one that way pays lousy wages.
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At some point in the future, a rover is going to land on Earth in search of life, and find the remnants of a decorated diaper contest, baby races, and hog calling.
Where’s the missing link for the new Highway 61 bridge over the Mississippi River in Hastings?
The obligatory Friday dog story
A picture of the American Dream
Joe DiMaggio was a righthanded hitter. What’s wrong with this stamp in the recently released Major League Baseball stars series released by the USPS
A year ago Friday, Arianna Tatum jumped to her death off the White Bear Ave bridge over I-94.
Paul Tosto
Photo courtesy of Doug Ohman The mom-and-pop resort, that staple of Minnesota lake life, is becoming harder to find. MPR News reporter Tom Robertson wrote that in July 2002. At that point, crazy lakeshore prices were making it too lucrative for small resort owners not to sell their land and leave the business. That same Read more →
The disowning of RegBarc
Let’s just take a break from the news of the day for a moment to acknowledge more people who do their part to make life a bit better.
The (likely faked) Cheerios protest
A sad sign of the times: The Houston office of homeland security has distributed a video on how to survive a mass shooting…
Chicken rights
Happily, I haven’t caused a car accident in 34 years of driving. But, yeah, on occasion I’ve ridden the bumper of the car in front of me, hit the gas fast to get past the senior citizen at the light and weaved through traffic like a NASCAR driver with a grudge. Unlike drinking or texting Read more →