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Carl is sick

Carl is sick

Is there a more beloved person in Public Radio than Carl Kasell? So it's not surprising that people have been concerned that the former NPR anchor hasn't been on his regular spot on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me for weeks.
by Bob Collins

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Whatever happened to tarmac delays?

Whatever happened to tarmac delays?

A delightful thing happened this week when a flight from Beijing to Macao was delayed on the tarmac for over three hours. A group of musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra, in China to mark 40 years since such cultural visits between the U.S. and China were re-established, broke out the instruments.
by Bob Collins

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What’s going on in the front of the plane? Nothing

Over the years, I’ve passed along posts from “Sam,” a fully-unnamed regional airline pilot out of Minneapolis who writes the “Blogging at FL250” blog about his life as an airline pilot. I didn’t know his last name until today, when Flying Magazine published Sam Weigel’s article, “A Day in the Life of an RJ Pilot.”…
by Bob Collins

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Happy Love at Target Center

Happy Love at Target Center

Kevin Love is happy, again. For a mess of a franchise that does business at Target Center, that's good news.
by Bob Collins

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The making of Then They Came for Me

The making of Then They Came for Me

We'll have to live without Jon Stewart on the Daily Show for the rest of the summer and the reason why is not at all comedy.
by Bob Collins

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5 x 8: Burning the village to save it

5 x 8: Burning the village to save it

Free to be spied upon, in search of happy endings at commencements, two by two on day one of same-sex marriage licenses, last night's Northland lights show, and a visit from Mr. Rogers.
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (6/6/13)

The first same-sex marriage licenses, heroin's big comeback, defending the phone spying, an update on the Pennsylvania lung-transplant girl, and is it time to legalize online poker?
by Bob Collins

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Blaming the tornado messenger

Blaming the tornado messenger

It's great sport to criticize TV meteorologists for their penchant for hyperbole, but it's a different kind of grief that's descending on Oklahoma City meteorologist Mike Morgan.
by Bob Collins

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The disappearing D-Day survivors

The disappearing D-Day survivors

Sixty-nine years ago today, 157,000 men participated in the landing on Normandy, known as D-Day. More than 6,000 died in the invasion. At the Memorial Day Concert in 2007, actor Charles Durning told his story of being one of the first soldiers on Omaha Beach. The scene he described was anything but glorious. It was…
by Bob Collins

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The politics of sports championship celebrations

The politics of sports championship celebrations

Maybe it’s time to stop inviting sports teams to the White House to celebrate their accomplishments. Nobody really cares about the visit, it’s a 10-second story if it does make news, and it’s starting to become a soapbox for some of the players. Former Minnesota Viking Matt Birk is the latest sports star to turn…
by Bob Collins

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