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Why is looting a response to a police shooting?

Why is looting a response to a police shooting?

This might be the most fascinating news image we’ve seen in a few weeks. Protesters confronted police in Ferguson, Missouri, where a police officer shot to death an unarmed teen who allegedly had struggled with the officer. Does the dog really help? When the sun went down, however, protesters resorted to what usually happens in…
by Bob Collins

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With one diploma, a reminder of our ignorance

Fifty-five years is an awfully long time to wait before giving an African-American man the diploma he was denied because he had a picnic in park that was off-limits to blacks.
by Bob Collins

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If the world were more like golf

If the world were more like golf

Golf has been losing its popularity in recent years. Maybe it's just too courteous.
by Bob Collins

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For many, getting a DMV road test is like winning the lottery

“It’s like trying to buy bread in Poland in the 1980s,” Jeff Mudge tells the Pioneer Press. It’s funny he chose the analogy because several paragraphs into the weekend Pioneer Press’ story about how long it takes to get a driver’s license road test, I was thinking, “this sounds like the old Eastern Bloc days.”…
by Bob Collins

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When schoolbell rings, whites will be in the minority

Something different accompanies the start of the school year this year. For the first time in modern U.S. history, whites will be the minority. Non-Hispanic white students are still expected to be the largest racial group in the public schools this year at 49.8 percent, CBS News reports. But the National Center for Education Statistics…
by Bob Collins

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‘It’s a miracle,’ mother of girl swept by tsunami says

‘It’s a miracle,’ mother of girl swept by tsunami says

This was the last image Jamaliah Jannah had of her two children, before they swept away in a tsunami in Indonesia 10 years ago that killed 275,000 people. The four year old daughter, Raudhatul, was swept onto an island, found by a fisherman, and raised with the name Winni by the fisherman’s mother. A couple…
by Bob Collins

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Protesting Kevin Love, Minnesota style

Protesting Kevin Love, Minnesota style

Well played, Twin Cities comedian Mike Brody. Related: Kevin Love: Overrated, Underrated, or Properly Rated? (Grantland).
by Bob Collins

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The day we adopted a low bar for presidential behavior

The day we adopted a low bar for presidential behavior

You've probably heard that today is the 40th anniversary of the day Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, a day that now is typically marked by younger people revealing the massive failure of American history teachers.
by Bob Collins

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What other month can do this?

What other month can do this?

August is the most underrated month on the calendar, resigned to being only known as the end of summer.
by Bob Collins

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A musician’s search for the man with cancer in Mpls.

A musician’s search for the man with cancer in Mpls.

NPR's Melissa Block is looking for a stranger who was passing through Minneapolis in late July 2013.
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