Bob Collins
In Kansas City, a sportswriter wrote that a player for the Royals should have allowed himself to be hit by a pitch. Easy, right? Sure, unless you’re a player getting hit by a baseball.
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Archives for May 2011
What are the odds that in the same week that Francisco Liriano throws a no-hitter, a group of curlers would toss an eight-ender?
If oil is dropping in price, how come gas is still $3.99? Also: Distracted dining, where airlines fly, the new Wild coach, and a caption contest.
Politics and ‘ground zero’
Rare images from a flood
The real history of radio and why it matters, is getting kids excited in school a waste of time, catching up with the Kochs, the new reality in Bemidji, on Jackie Cooper, and pothole poetry.
Minneapolis: City of right angles and glass
Not since Garrison Keillor and Jesse Ventura went at it has the world seen a politician vs. elitist artist fray like the one developing between Rep. Matt Dean and author Neil Gaiman.
Timewasters: The trailer
Laura Wilkins is walking to visit her mother in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She’s in Tucson.
Why ‘Geronimo,’ the war on pencil-necks, proof baseball hates the Twins, the new Dust Bowl, and I dare you not to click this link.
Maybe what we need to warm things up around here is a good, old-fashioned climate-change debate.