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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Archives for April 2013

The criminal complaint against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 22, 2013, 1:11 PM Apr 22, 2013
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As good as some of the reporting over the weekend of the events during the Boston Marathon investigation was, nothing can be as riveting as the complaint lodged against the man arrested and now charged.

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The art of Pong

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 22, 2013, 12:44 PM Apr 22, 2013
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America never seems so great as it does when it stops to watch a Pong game being played on the side of a building.

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Reddit: “We’re sorry”

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 22, 2013, 11:53 AM Apr 22, 2013
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Where is Sunil Tripathi?

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Five by 8

Just watch me! (5×8 – 4/22/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 22, 2013, 6:48 AM Apr 22, 2013
6

A call for more surveillance, in the Oil Patch and missing home, back to the flat land, voices from Laos, and the aurora in Minnesota.

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Big Papi’s analysis of the week

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2013, 1:37 PM Apr 20, 2013
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You’ll just have to forgive failed Minnesota Twin — and probable Red Sox Hall of Famer — David Ortiz for the language he used today at Fenway Park

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Freedom is messy and ugly

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 20, 2013, 8:57 AM Apr 20, 2013
11

Freedom can be incomprehensible and infuriating. Long may it live.

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (4/19/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2013, 4:57 PM Apr 19, 2013
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There’s really not another story besides the stand-off in Boston. But we talk about them anyway.

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Weather

Kindness and the snow that makes us want to scream

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2013, 2:13 PM Apr 19, 2013
6

You could probably forgive a Chanhassen snowplower driver if he/she had chosen to destroy a snowman some kids built in a cul de sac.

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The empty American city

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2013, 12:12 PM Apr 19, 2013
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We really don’t know what a major American city looks like when it’s shut down, because — as near as we can tell — one has never been shut down before.

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The view from next door

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2013, 10:08 AM Apr 19, 2013
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Andrew Kitzenberg, an Edina native, had a bad seat for the overnight shootout in the Watertown area of metropolitan Boston. He’s next door.

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Five by 8

The victims of bad journalism (5×8 – 4/19/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2013, 7:32 AM Apr 19, 2013
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This message from an innocent man, why I don’t work, the new iconic picture of life in Minneapolis, fleeing the flood in Fargo, and are they taxes or are they fees?

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Mary and Bob

Mary and Bob (4/18/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2013, 5:01 PM Apr 18, 2013
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The Boston ‘suspects,’ the surgeon who ran the marathon, then saved people; the blast in Texas, gay marriage rally at the Capitol and how on earth can anyone afford to stop looking for work?

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Why ammonium nitrate explodes

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2013, 3:57 PM Apr 18, 2013
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Maggie Koerth-Baker is going to be on MPR’s Daily Circuit tomorrow to talk about last evening’s tragic explosion of a fertilizer plant in Texas. But — spoiler alert — in her Boing Boing column today, she gets to the nuts and bolts about ammonium nitrate fertilizer. In fact, since the 1950s, ammonium nitrate-based explosives have Read more →

Things that worked this week: the Internet

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2013, 2:39 PM Apr 18, 2013
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Internet, you are so fine.

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The speech you probably won’t hear about

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 18, 2013, 2:21 PM Apr 18, 2013
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She’ll get none of the coverage in the news, but the best speech at today’s interfaith service in Boston didn’t come from President Obama.

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