You know, some where, some way, some how trying to remain calm, keep your cool and reason just doesn’t cut the mustard. Sometimes it is just easy to let your hair hang down and have fun. Some time ago (years in fact) I received these e-mail dandies. And remember: smile! * * * 20 Ways […]
So, I reminded Young Master Sean Rush on Monday, that next week school starts. He was taken back. ‘What?? the 12-year-old asked. ‘Yep, come Tuesday it’s back to the books for you,? I replied, probably with a snarky chuckle attached. All public schools in the state start the day after Labor Day, though some private […]
Well, well, well. Once again special interest rules the day. Once again, those thin-skinned, namby-pamby, lily-livered, weak-kneed, spineless vertebrates we elected went and did it. Let’s just call a spade and spade: they caved in to some subversive special interest group — I don’t know which one, but I have at least one theory. Don’t […]
Sometimes all signs point to one thing. Something. A thing you’re ‘sposed to do or say. And sometimes that something is to do not a gol-darned thing at all. Unfortunately for you all, this isn’t one of those do-nothing times. As it is many times with me, when the stars align themselves just right, it […]
Longtime Lake Orion resident Ione Drum, 94, and her daughter, Gayle Garcia are looking for help. The two are seeking letters of support for their son and brother, Larry Drum — who has spent 16 years a ward of the Michigan Corrections Department. ‘We received some good news,? Garcia, a Lapeer resident said. ‘The state […]
Though it has been a ‘happening? for three years now, I just found out about Ypsilanti’s Nightmare Cruise. The Nightmare Cruise is to the Woodward Dream Cruise as Woody Allen would be to some hunky old actor (Sean Connery?). And, while I like cool, buffed up old cars as much as the other guy, I […]
Like Yogi, son Shamus, 14, is smarter than the average bear. However, I am afraid to say, my oldest male cub has picked up at least one of Papa Bear’s bad habits — he likes to ‘collect? stuff other folks have discarded. I think he enjoys looking for things he can fix, salvage or sell. […]
While I am still gathering information on the good ol? boy network in Orion Township, real estate shenanigans and local residents getting thrown under the bus by the their elected officials, let’s go back in time. In 2004 I wrote this gem of a column. Enjoy. — Don * * * Let me start out […]
Riddle me this, Bat-readers . . . when is a job done? Is it when the person performing the task says so, or when the person(s) paying the bill say so? On the bequest of Orion Township taxpayers I have to ask questions. Before I get to that, I ask you to forgive me, cuz […]
While I am still gathering information on the good ol? boy network in Orion Township, real estate shenanigans and local residents getting thrown under the bus by the their elected officials, let’s go back in time. In 2004 I wrote this gem of a column. Enjoy. — Don * * * Let me start out […]