Come Heller high water… Wait. You were expecting senators to locate their consciences in time to vote yes on gun control measures this week? C’mon. If 1st graders being slaughtered in their classroom didn’t move our fine, concerned public servants to do something – anything … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2016
The Heller Poll: do you love or hate Michigan’s fireworks law?
It wasn't many years ago that Michigan banned Roman candles, firecrackers, bottle rockets and the like. Then the law changed and suddenly you could own and fire off everything short of a nuclear missile, which scared enough dogs and ticked off enough people to force lawmakers to … [Read more...]
Happy Father’s Day to the kids who let me dad them
Today is Father’s Day. I’ve never claimed to be the World’s Best Dad, but I have learned a few things over the past 22 years, many of them, oddly enough, from watching the lovely yet formidable Marcia, who is great dad and mom all rolled into one: Being silly and playing … [Read more...]
This week’s Auchtoon: The governor’s wishy-washiness spawns a new word
There is a scene in the movie Raising Arizona where a couple of delinquent brothers go to rob a bank. They feel pretty confident about their plan because they fancy themselves sophisticated criminals. As they bust in the front door of the dusty, country bank, one of the brothers … [Read more...]
Heller Poll results: A narrow win for gun control
According to the latest NBC/Survey Monkey poll released yesterday, Americans strongly want tighter gun control laws (61 percent) including a ban on the sale of assault weapons (60 percent.) Readers of this website: Ehhh, not so much. A narrow majority (53 percent) of the 431 … [Read more...]
