Come Heller high water … My favorite story from the Fourth of July was NPR tweeting the Declaration of Independence line by line, which Troll Nation clearly did not recognize. They tweeted back things like “NPR this is why you're going to get defunded. Literally no one is … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2017
Sadly, grown-ups can’t handle grown-up fireworks
First published July 3, 2016 .. reprinted this year because A) I'm lazy, and B) It's still the truth I love fireworks. The state should ban fireworks. Again. I don’t mean smoke bombs, sparklers and snakes. Those are boring, thus banning them would be like banning … [Read more...]
Auchtoon time: The failure of relentless positive (non) action
Toon and text by John Auchter For those of you who despair over the coarsening of political discussion and wring your hands over what social media hath wrought, I offer you ... no disagreement. But maybe a little perspective. All that nasty, angry, divisive public … [Read more...]
Surveyin’ da Situation: Small towns do the 4th best
By John Matonich One of the great things about living in rural areas near small towns is that typically each town has some type of summer festival. This is the time of the year around the 4th of July when a lot of the communities around here in the west end of the U.P. have … [Read more...]