Batting season leads to scholarship

Biff! Bam! Boom! ‘To the Batpole, Boy Wonder.? * * * Ah, it’s October. The colors, the (thanks to global warming) warm days and relatively cool nights, pumpkins all turn a young man’s attention to things warm and cuddly. And, if you’re Dave Kugler, that can only mean one thing, bats. Kugler, of Ortonville is […]

Some news for thems that like the weird stuff

There are many times in all our lives when we need news that really isn’t. Sometimes we need news that doesn’t report the number of home foreclosures in Michigan; the number of soldiers killed in Iraq; nor the number of sexual blunders by any elected official. That, dear readers, is why when I need a […]

For whom the bell rings, but should we answer?

The other day, whilst sitting alone, contemplating life, my thoughts were interrupted. I was in sort of a dilemma. Then I had a thought. For the longest time I resisted tethering myself to electronic devices — this practice is a long-standing one with me, going back nearly a quarter of a century. I am not […]

News for thems that like weird stuff

There are many times in all our lives when we need news that really isn’t. Sometimes we need news that doesn’t report the number of home foreclosures in Michigan; the number of soldiers killed in Iraq; nor the number of sexual blunders by any elected official. That, dear readers, is why when I need a […]

Schools ride the wave of student enrollment

It’s the first of October, the beginning of the month so it must be time to clean out the message center, get rid of scribbled notes and in general clean up September’s mess. I received a couple of phone calls from the same Oxford resident wanting to share some love . . . not with […]

Wonder why Michigan sucks? Read on.

As of this writing, the fate of the free world is precariously sitting atop a pinpoint — one bad gust o? wind and evil will prevail over goodness. Well, maybe that’s a little melodramatic. Yet as I write, folks in Lansing are still trying to look good to their favorite special interest groups. I don’t […]

George Bush doesn’t like Michigan people

Recording artist Kanye West was wrong when he said something to the effect, ‘George Bush doesn’t like black people.? George Bush doesn’t like people of any color if they come from Michigan. It seems clear to me the future of Michigan (near term) is murky at best — and we can thank, in part, United […]

Lions-free, that’s me.

Recently — if you call a couple of weeks ago, ‘recently? — I announced I was Lions-free. It was at a family function, and well, it felt pretty good to share. I imagine it’s the same way an alcoholic feels when he or she professes to be going on the wagon. What I was trying […]

Labor Day Freak Out!

Maybe three-day weekends are not a good thing. Maybe during so much time off a person’s mind can wander where it shouldn’t. Here are some of the things I thought about during the Labor Day weekend. (And I didn’t think about war in Iraq, Michigan unemployment, nor home foreclosures and high gas prices — but, […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

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 […]