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Let’s talk commenting

This week, I've started heavier moderating of comments in an effort to rid the comments sections of disruptors who are not so much interested in an exchange of ideas on an intellectual basis (go ahead, call me elitist) as they are satisfying some personal needs to set fire to the space and watch it burn.
by Bob Collins

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A tax break for the cigar smoker?

In the list of people in Minnesota who are suffering, can anyone top the smoker of premium cigars?
by Bob Collins

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Calf has extra legs in its neck

The Bismarck Tribune says a calf was born on Gerald Skalsky's farm with the defect. Now the question is whether it was genetic or caused by something else.
by Bob Collins

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In battle of the bathrooms, women are still losing

In battle of the bathrooms, women are still losing

Male privilege is the luxury of sitting at a hockey game, having to go to the bathroom, scooting up the stairs and into the men's room to do what you've got to do, and getting back to your seat before the TV timeout is over. Ask your female friend if that's how it is for women at the games.
by Bob Collins

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A love letter is delivered 72 years late

Rolf Christoffersen had no reason to think he'd ever get a message from his wife, Virginia, again. The former sailor in the Norwegian Navy is 96 now. His wife died six years ago this weekend.
by Bob Collins

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A mother’s advice for ‘the missing middle of the female workforce’

Alyson Gounden Rock, a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, is a 40-something mom back in the workplace and ready to provide some motherly advice to working moms about to have their first Mother's Day.
by Bob Collins

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New London-Spicer parents want book banned

The New London-Spicer School District provides an alternative lesson plan when parents object to a book being discussed in class. The objecting students leave the room and study somewhere else. This week, two opponents of a Sherman Alexie book say that's not good enough.
by Bob Collins

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When police officers refuse to kill

Police officer Stephen Mader was talking a man out trying to get police to shoot him. He thought it was working. Then, another officer shot the man, and Mader was fired from his job.
by Bob Collins

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A collision of free speech at a commencement

We can only imagine what the faculty of Bethune-Cookman University was thinking when they stood up as the booing began during Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' speech at commencement today. But perhaps they were asking themselves if they failed over the last four years or succeeded?
by Bob Collins

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