Bob Collins
The most intellectual discussions on American issues are increasingly coming from The Comedy Channel.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Five by 8
Five by 8 – 3/9/10: Should Petters get life?
Is the Internet a right? Also: Porn and the state Legislature, cloning Neanderthals, name this landmark, and music meets math.
5×8- 3/5/10: Who owns culture?
Are Americans as angry as the narrative says, when God shouldn’t be ‘part of the discussion,’ a reporter fills your pain, Duluth strikes back, and the healing power of coffee.
Should online classes cost more, Duluth in winter by bike, kids in the control tower, encore in the Mayo atrium, and Rube Goldberg lives on the Internet.
Dispelling the romance of the farm, what’s Clarence Thomas really like, the silver medal and the Seinfeld Generation, God and disasters, and do you remember your drive to work today?
Losing a game and winning hearts, taking suicide seriously, group therapy for back pain, the health care summit, and Conan O’Brien loses to a cat.
Are tickets issued before no-parking signs go up; heart attacks and layoffs; Dale’s humble pie recipe; and parents and youth sports… again.
Eye on the Millenials, the casket depression, why kids getting shot in school isn’t news anymore, women on the sub, and a goodbye to Herbie.
Bipartisanship makes a rare appearance, YouTube and the college application, firing people for a living, and what’s in household dust that you don’t want to know about?
B.B. King’s concert in Minneapolis upstaged, Ground Zero is a national disgrace, how singing repairs the brain, and the curse of curling.
kenpaulman
Today’s tour of headlines reveals fire, drowning, regional identity, Tiger Woods, and wolves.
Send your pothole pics, how to invite burglars to your home via Twitter, has the stimulus worked, pictures that make you want to sing, and the world’s oldest paperboy.