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1,000 Words: The Perry-Obama meeting

1,000 Words: The Perry-Obama meeting

Do you suppose this picture is going to sweep across meme-land today? President Obama met with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other Texas officials on the brewing immigration calamity there in which hundreds of young people are crossing the border, overwhelming the state. No doubt, the picture isn’t about the issue — photographers weren’t allowed…
by Bob Collins

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Who’d want to burn down a Little Library?

Who’d want to burn down a Little Library?

The Minneapolis Police Department is looking for some help to find the likely illiterate who did this: Someone torched the Little Library on Minnehaha Avenue on Sunday, according to a post on the MPD Facebook page. It takes a lot of hate to burn a book.
by Bob Collins

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Our personal history: Here today, deleted tomorrow

My mother, now 92 years old, spends many of her days reading the letters sent her during World War II — love letters, I presume, since they’d only been married a few months when he headed to Europe. They are bundled and tied with ribbons, and when she finishes reading them, she starts at the…
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Potato salad maker with big bucks to pay big taxes

As of this afternoon, Zack Danger Brown, the man who started a Kickstarter campaign to raise money by promising to make potato salad, owes $21,000. That’s the conclusion of the Tax Foundation. In its blog post today, the group considers the over $70,000 people have thrown at Brown so far: We will cap the amount…
by Bob Collins

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Noisey makes a stop in the Twin Cities

Noisey makes a stop in the Twin Cities

Noisey, the digital music channel, has made a stop in Minneapolis for the third installment (after Seattle and Denver) of its Made in America series. And although we did spend five minutes contemplating loitering outside Paisley Park like a stalker, there’s so much more to the area than “purfiying yourself in the waters of Lake…
by Bob Collins

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Reporting from a haboob

Reporting from a haboob

We have noted in this space for many years the silly tendency of TV reporter to want to stand in water to tell the story of a flood (a tendency, it’s worth noting, that seemed sparse in the recent floods in Minnesota). A Phoenix reporter took it to a new level with the recent haboob.
by Bob Collins

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Mud Day

Mud Day

There's nothing wrong with the world that a little more romping in mud can't cure.
by Bob Collins

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Bar’s dress code stirs racism allegations

What comes to your mind when you read this description of articles of clothing, now banned at a Minneapolis bar? – Flat-billed hats – Large chains – Sleeveless under shirts – Long white T-shirts – Athletic apparel – Sports jerseys without collars – Excessively baggy clothing “You might as well say, ‘No black folks allowed,'”…
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Sad Brazil

Sad Brazil

Soccer is called "the beautiful game," because "the game that rips your heart out, stomps on your gut, and leaves your country humiliated in the eyes of the sports world" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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World’s best pilot buys pizza for passengers

World’s best pilot buys pizza for passengers

Let the word go forth, airline pilots: Captain Gerhard Brandner has raised the bar. His Frontier Airlines flight to Denver was diverted because of thunderstorms the other night and as he sat on the ground in Cheyenne, he decided to order some pizza for himself. He also ordered 49 more pizzas for all his passengers.…
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