I don't much like squirrels. They look too much like rats to me and rats, frankly, even bushy tailed ones, creep me right out. I know people that hunt squirrels during small game season that would happily make a meal out of their' [...]
On this Thanksgiving Day, Michigan Radio’s Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry has some things we should be thankful for…
Here’s an arresting statistic: If the Detroit Lions somehow win their traditional Thanksgiving football game today, they will have won as many games [...] Apparently there is yet another photographer who has figured out how to profit from Detroit’s misery (Ruins Of a Once-Great City). Such portfolios have become so ubiquitous that a term has been coined to describe it’s titillating nature: “ruin-porn." I don’t mind: Detroit is certainly fair game in the [...]
The doctor is in:
It’s a beautiful Saturday in November. In Michigan it’s likely to be the last beautiful day we see for months. How would you like to spend it? Football game, yard clean-up, Christmas lights? How about waiting in line for a [...]
Today, we celebrate our men and women in uniform in a veterans day tradition nearly 100 years old.
My own personal activities will be to support a particular soldier, whom I am so proud to call my son. My wife and I will be attending the CMU veterans Appreciation night game [...]
The Detroit News reports that President Obama will sign the long-anticipated bill to extend unemployment benefits by an additional 14-20 weeks on Friday. After weeks of wrangling and political gamesmanship, the U.S. Senate finally passed the bill on Wednesday.
[...]Former Michigan State University football coach and current trustee George Perles says he is in the game for the Democratic primary for governor. The Associated Press is reporting the 75-year-old coach says he has enough experience, having served on the MSU Board of Trustees since 2006.
He will face [...]
If you have a good team, that would be one thing, but the Lions? In either case, however, a blackout is a blackout. Yet, the Detroit Free Press, champions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, told its readers how to illegally circumvent the blackout anyway. Check [...] I mostly agree with this morning's Peter Luke column. As is typical of him, it is well thought out and intelligent and, best of all, reflective of how the usual games in Lansing play out for everyone else in the state. I do quibble with one small thing, however.
The [...]
