Journey back with me to my 1-room country school days, carrying my sandwich lunches in a pail, up hill both ways in deep snow, etc. The sandwich part came to me this week when I was overcome with a need for a peanut butter and bread and butter pickle sandwich. I was so overcome with […]
Editor’s Note: Still full from Thanksgiving dinner and disappointed by Michigan’s loss to Ohio State, Mr. Sherman decided to run a ‘best of? column from Nov. 29, 2006. Enjoy! No dog we’ve ever owned heard us say ‘kennel? when we referred to a dropping off point when we were leaving town for a while. Such […]
I’ve often quoted my friend Dick Milliman’s Almanac column. Besides writing the Almanac for his own newspapers, he allows me to quote him. We’ve been friends for several decades. He’s lived much of his life in the Lansing area, was on Gov. George Romney’s staff, ran for Congress once, and is politically conscious. He does […]
. . . And with that we have the problem. Now we need to turn our emphasis to a solution. There are on-going campaigns for more money for school facilities, teachers, sports palaces, etc. And while taxpayers have been pretty generous for such things, graduation rates have not soared, and in inner cities the rates […]
One of our governments (state or US) has us springing our clocks forward in March and falling back in November. This year that was November 3. Why did our leaders get us into this system, and when? I was sure it had something to do with farmers. You know, when to milk a cow, slop […]
After that Tuesday we can heave a sigh of relief, and refocus on the important things on television like commercials for Viagra. I’ve had it up to here with all these commercials for adult activities! I suggest the makers of memory pills replace Viagra on the tube. And I don’t want a Ram or Silverado […]
A Frank Cerabino column from the Palm Beach, Fla. Post. * * * News item . . . When announcing the phone number for Florida Fungal Meningitis hotline this week, Gov Rick Scott inadvertently gave out the wrong phone number, directing Floridians to call a phone sex hotline to answer their questions. The meningitis outbreak […]
Back in the 1960s, F. Ray Forman owned the Oxford Theater. I guess that gave him the right to censor films. My source is Dick Buechler, who I don’t question on his Oxford Village history. Anyway, Ingrid Bergman was featured in a movie, and was pregnant when the film hit Oxford. Because Ms. Bergman wasn’t […]
2 Topics: Ballot props and Phyllis Diller Now that I have my absentee voters ballot in hand I can assume a whole bunch of others do, too. Of course I have an opinion on the six constitutional proposals. Only Prop One could veto a present law. The other five all would amend the State Constitution. […]
For several years The Oxford Leader was on The Old Farmer’s Almanac mailing list. We didn’t ask for it, but we loved receiving it, and reporting its weather predictions, among other things. All those years they claimed 80 percent accuracy in their weather predictions. However, 2011 got ’em. They refer to last year as ‘the […]