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On Swedes, sex, and Bob Dylan

On Swedes, sex, and Bob Dylan

Perhaps we're going to have to go back and listen to more of Bob Dylan's music because we think we might have done it wrong the first time around.
by Bob Collins

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Housekeeping: The number you have reached is not in service

We're aware that all of today's NewsCut posts today have mysteriously disappeared. This includes any discussions you may have been involved in on today's posts. Your comments are preserved, we just can't find the posts that went with them.
by Bob Collins

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97-year-old vet: ‘Who’s got World Series tickets?’

If Chicago can't rally around a 97-year old man who survived Pearl Harbor, there's something wrong. All you have to do, Chicago, is give up your tickets to a Cubs World Series game.
by Bob Collins

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John Oliver hammers Big Pharma for opioid epidemic

It's tempting to note that it's quite a coincidence that John Oliver's focus last night on 'Last Week Tonight' was the opioid epidemic, coming as it did on a weekend in which authorities announced that two people are dead -- so far -- in a wave of nine overdoses of opioids in the Twin Cities. But that's the nature of epidemics. There are no coincidences. These headlines have been a constant for more than a year.
by Bob Collins

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Obituaries on the radio

On the radio this morning, we'll talk about the power and importance of a well written obituary.
by Bob Collins

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Seat-belt shaming

We can think of few other deaths for which this shaming over non seat-belt use so routinely and consistently appears.
by Bob Collins

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Swedes, sex, and Bob Dylan

Swedes, sex, and Bob Dylan

Perhaps we're going to have to go back and listen to more of Bob Dylan's music because we think we might have done it wrong the first time around.
by Bob Collins

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Parents in denial as evidence mounts that football hurts kids’ brains

For the most part, parents can be pretty over-the-top when it comes to protecting their kids from risks real and imagined. So why are they letting them play youth football?
by Bob Collins

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Forum newspaper takes a pass on presidential endorsement

Assuming a newspaper values itself as a civic leader, would it be OK with an editorial board if people simply didn't vote for president at all?
by Bob Collins

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Cleveland pitcher, Minnesota bride-to-be find the Internet is a nice place

Cleveland pitcher, Minnesota bride-to-be find the Internet is a nice place

Most fans of the Cleveland Indians had never heard of Ryan Merritt, until he pitched his team into the World Series. Now they're rewarding Merritt and his fiancee, a Rochester area native.
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