When you call the office of an elected official (at any level of government) and you get a recording saying, ‘I’m either taking another call or out of the office,? don’t you first assume they are attending a conference in Orlando or the Bahamas? Especially in February? Ms. Granholm, please explain to me again, remembering […]
Seeing deer wander across my lot usually makes me smile. They wander often, not necessarily to get to the other side, but I think sometimes they want to see if they can entice ma’dog Shayna to cross her electric fence limits. Six times they succeeded because I forget the batteries on her warning (shocking) system […]
Hal Lee Luyah The budget balancing act that goes on in Washington this time of every year would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. Those politician balancing acts would be a sideshow, not allowed in one of the 3 rings. In the first place they say they are going to cut spending to balance […]
In the same week recently golf and basketball sports fans were treated to continuous exposure, via television, of replays, plays and diagnoses adnauseam. The most powerful radio station in Michigan (there’s a 50,000 watt limit) WJR, interrupted the most powerful conservative radio mouth in the world (Rush Limbaugh) to bring us the confessions of a […]
Newspapers that rely on subscriptions for circulation (which generates advertising dollars) have lost readers for some years now. Dailies have been particularly hard hit, but so have many weeklies. As a person who has had newspaper ink in my blood for 50-plus years, I’ve recently noticed a trend of reporters and editors lengthening their stories. […]
This week, weather permitting, many of us can take up where we left off last October: trying to remove our frustrations by hitting a little ball as hard as we can. Time to return to the links. Time to remember there might be ladies within earshot, or the clergy, and to civilize our tongues. Time […]
There’s probably more than one way to reduce the flow of garbage into Michigan from Canada, thus saving more flat lands from becoming sledding hills. My off-the-cuff method would be to have a major depression. Oh, sure it would create severe hardships, but environmentalists would love it. There would be no more space takers in […]
I took quite a few years, but between my widening girth, my non-lithe body and my 6 ft. 4 in. frame I can no longer cut my toenails. A big toe has an in-grown nail, the one next to it is long enough to curl under and my little toe nail snags the sheets. Something […]
I had several hours to think of a reason I couldn’t take care of Haley and Trevor, even for only an hour. Thoughts of the reaction my wife would have had toward me if I didn’t take the challenge erased all excuses. I’d seen them the day before when they wanted to ride my feet […]
? It really spoils the image when I hear this country’s leaders publicly use the worst curse words. An uncle once told me, ‘People swear when they aren’t smart enough to think of clean words.? That includes me, but it shouldn’t allow our Vice President Biden and senior Senator Carl Levin to be so blatant. […]