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Tom Pantera
- Location
- Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
- Birthday
- December 22
- Title
- Managing editor
- Company
- Extra Media, Inc.
- Bio
- Middle-aged, divorced, liberal; nearly 30 years as a newspaper reporter. Pretty much a walking stereotype. By the way, many will deny it but people in Fargo do talk just like in the movie.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Hello I must be leaving
December 23, 2010 11:27AM - Here we go again
December 21, 2010 09:51PM - A shout-out to a friend and
colleague
December 15, 2010 08:06PM - Personal archaeology
December 14, 2010 02:06PM - Give us simpler problems
December 08, 2010 04:03PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “John, you continue to
amaze; a man who so often
makes me
laugh helplessly also
ca…”
December 23, 2010 11:39AM - “Well told! I know you
had great material to work
with there,
but your ability
to…”
December 21, 2010 09:49PM - “Beautifully and honestly
written.
I'm considerably
older than you, and have had
mo…”
December 14, 2010 02:27PM - “Do you keep the goose
grease next to the bed just
for the
pretty virgins, or is
t…”
December 14, 2010 02:10PM - “I don't know which
mental image haunts me more:
Mel Torme
roasting his
chestnuts…”
December 13, 2010 05:44PM
Tom Pantera's Links
- New list
- The FM Extra
- Editor’s Pick
- 2772 Views
- 51 Comments
Thinking about change
OCTOBER 29, 2009 4:42PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1439 Views
- 20 Comments
A child's garden of nightmare images
OCTOBER 13, 2009 5:35PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1468 Views
- 18 Comments
Drug testing less vital than drug talking
APRIL 24, 2009 11:38AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 2594 Views
- 24 Comments
You can't guard the gate when the fence is gone
NOVEMBER 12, 2009 10:54AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 758 Views
- 17 Comments
Now the hard work begins
JANUARY 14, 2010 11:08AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 907 Views
- 14 Comments
The seductions of anger
MAY 4, 2009 2:40PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 748 Views
- 17 Comments
Taxes aren't optional
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 11:17AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1505 Views
- 23 Comments
Slouching toward manhood
APRIL 30, 2009 10:53AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1561 Views
- 22 Comments
An Olympian sales job
FEBRUARY 24, 2010 1:56PM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 807 Views
- 23 Comments
Yes, I’m a numerophobic
MARCH 17, 2010 11:08AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1940 Views
- 18 Comments
Alone in a crowd? I wish
OCTOBER 22, 2009 12:12PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 882 Views
- 7 Comments
It's the values, stupid
APRIL 9, 2009 11:00AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 822 Views
- 8 Comments
Watching the clock wind down
JUNE 11, 2009 11:42AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 767 Views
- 9 Comments
Telephone can be a bonehead magnet
DECEMBER 16, 2009 10:49AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 1241 Views
- 56 Comments
We are all salespeople
OCTOBER 7, 2010 12:59PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1055 Views
- 8 Comments
Remembering the '70s wonderland
AUGUST 6, 2009 2:43PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1003 Views
- 8 Comments
Sometimes, you just lose your common sense
MARCH 31, 2009 12:20PM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 780 Views
- 12 Comments
Shredding the social contract
MAY 28, 2009 10:41AM EDT
- 581 Views
- 6 Comments
Mayberry doesn't really exist
JUNE 26, 2009 2:43PM EDT
- 413 Views
- 11 Comments
So long, pal
NOVEMBER 18, 2009 10:18AM EST
- Editor’s Pick
- 997 Views
- 21 Comments
Confessions of a critic
APRIL 22, 2010 12:19AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 1727 Views
- 7 Comments
I wish I got more mail
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 2:48PM EDT
- 364 Views
- 7 Comments
I'm in!
OCTOBER 14, 2010 1:37PM EDT
- 826 Views
- 12 Comments
Desire to be liked makes for lousy reporting
MARCH 20, 2009 10:20AM EDT
- Editor’s Pick
- 835 Views
- 4 Comments
Hometown a fading snapshot
APRIL 15, 2009 9:47AM EDT
Tom Pantera's Favorites
Updates
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Making peace with the Point
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Alternate OS Cover Page For Memorial Day
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Robert F. Kennedy's estranged wife hangs herself
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I Won't Vote for Romney But His Wife Works
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Announcing the Salon-Alternet Investigative Fund
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Why Aren't Men More Outraged by the Oral Contraception Issue
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"This American Life" offers Painful, Necessary Retraction
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My Dangerous Childhood
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