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In praise of the public defender

How bad must it be to be the person representing arguably the most hated man in America?
by Bob Collins

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Rewriting last week’s history

The Boston Marathon bombing story has reached the repair-the-media-image stage.
by Bob Collins

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‘The weatherman is not a moron’ (5X8 – 4/23/13)

‘The weatherman is not a moron’ (5X8 – 4/23/13)

Riding a hot streak with the cold stuff, the forgotten city in Texas, Teddy Kremer's big night, nostalgic for prohibition, and what do voters want.
by Bob Collins

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Mary and Bob (4/22/13)

Charges filed against the alleged marathon bomber as another victim is mourned, flight delays and fewer controllers, debating the health and human services bill at the Legislature, Anthony Weiner returns to the scene of the crime -- Twitter -- and, oh hey, more snow
by Bob Collins

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Snapshots from space

Snapshots from space

Chris Hadfield has made space cool again.
by Bob Collins

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The criminal complaint against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

As good as some of the reporting over the weekend of the events during the Boston Marathon investigation was, nothing can be as riveting as the complaint lodged against the man arrested and now charged.
by Bob Collins

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The art of Pong

The art of Pong

America never seems so great as it does when it stops to watch a Pong game being played on the side of a building.
by Bob Collins

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Reddit: “We’re sorry”

Where is Sunil Tripathi?
by Bob Collins

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Just watch me! (5×8 – 4/22/13)

Just watch me! (5×8 – 4/22/13)

A call for more surveillance, in the Oil Patch and missing home, back to the flat land, voices from Laos, and the aurora in Minnesota.
by Bob Collins

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