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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]