Bob Collins
3.14
The one day of the year math gets a little respect.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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The food shelf in Hibbing is closing for good this month. It’s run out of volunteers.
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How does a pair of cut-off jeans festooned with pins from the Minnesota state hockey tournament end up on a rack in Japan? Read more →
Kris and Mike Gutierrez, of Menomonee Falls, Wis., had their first date in 1994 at John Hawks Pub in Milwaukee. And because love is grand, they go there every March 25th to celebrate what a first date can beget. Read more →
Robert Kelly, a professor of political science at Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea, and an expert on South Korea, had a lot of interesting things to say during his BBC interview on the subject today.
And nobody remembers a single thing he said. Read more →
Wisconsin sweeps cheese championship
Where is the Baby Boomer to acknowledge that his/hers is the Worst Generation? I’ll tell you where. He’s going on vacation to Florida just as soon as he finishes this post to sample the life of affluence, kept by a generation of working kids who have nowhere near the possibility of such a life thanks to the world we left. I’ll feel guilty about it when I get back. Maybe. Read more →
One of the things I love most about peeking into what people are peeking into is how different their choice of stories are from what we otherwise might think they’d be.
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There’s rebellion brewing again in Wisconsin. Some people want their Irish butter.
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It’s been difficult to find the daily dose of sweetness lately. Maybe we’re not as sweet as we used to be. Or maybe the Internet is infatuated with other things.
We found one in Canada today. A dad takes his kids ice-fishing. Read more →
In Hartford, Conn., the archdiocese is urging people to abstain from their phones on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the Hartford Courant reports. Read more →
An odd thing happened while a Kanabec County sheriff’s deputy was looking for a cow in the road on Highway 23 on Monday night. He hit it. It turns out the cow was in the road on Highway 23, the Pioneer Press reports. Read more →
Jean Oddi died on Monday in Columbus, Ohio and the local newspaper — the Columbus Dispatch — appropriately observed the unwritten rule of good obituaries: You don’t edit out swear words when the departed write their own obit.
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Bones, Mike Hartzell, picks up the litter, sweeps sidewalks and looks out for people and pets and the neighborhood looks out for him, too.
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However, if you eat corned beef on St. Patrick’s Day, you’re required to ‘undertake a work of charity, an exercise of piety, or an act of comparable penance on some other occasion during the Second Week of Lent,’ according to Susan Mulheron, chancellor of canonical affairs for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Read more →