Come Heller high water … My whole life, it’s taken me three months each January to stop thinking it was still the old year. This year I immediately started writing 2019 on checks (yes, I still write a few of those) and saying 2019 when I’m talking about … 2019. What I can’t … [Read more...]
Auchtoons: It’s back to the basics time for Michigan
As always, I leave the cartoon open to your interpretation. (My intention is not to tell readers what to think — it's more a nudge to get them to think.) Also as always, these little essays that follow are not supposed to explain the cartoon. The cartoons should stand (or die) … [Read more...]
Rage and dance on, Congresswomen!
Rage on, Rep. Rashida Tlaib! Dance on, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! You're not listening to or being intimidated by the fake outrage from the Tea Bag Party (formerly known as the GOP) about your salty language, your appearance, your political views, your age, your … [Read more...]
Surveyin’ da Situation: You don’t turn into your parents … until you do
I have seen a commercial on the tube quite a few times recently for an insurance company that always makes me smile. The gist of the commercial is a guy’s friends are concerned that their buddy is turning into his dad now that he has bought his own house. The commercial shows … [Read more...]
Murch: I resolve to never make resolutions
So 2018 is officially in the rear view mirror and 2019 is underway, The question is, will we learn from the lessons of last year or will we find a way to repeat some of them? Let's save that for another day and think about something else: Someone started the new year on the … [Read more...]
In 2019, you hereby resolve to …
This is the time when people start to ask, “Should I make any resolutions for the New Year?” It’s a ridiculous question. Of COURSE you should make resolutions. Based on how often you annoy me with your behavior, you need to make lots and lots of resolutions, and the sooner the … [Read more...]
Surveyin’ da Situation: Hey, drivers, if the weather sucks, so do the roads
By John Matonich It was a long ago when yours truly took driver education. I have written before about that experience, but I feel it’s time to remind folks of one of the first lessons we learned in that class. I believe it was the first day of class when the instructor made a … [Read more...]
Murch: Here’s what we need in 2019
Is it just me? Do we say, “Here's hoping next year is better than this one was” every year now? Whether it's true or not, it seems like there is a group of people – not necessarily the same group of people all of the time – saying that every year. Hopefully, it's just something … [Read more...]
Sometimes I feel like somebody’s watching me
A New York Times report this week said internal Facebook documents indicate that Mark Zuckerberg’s Frankenstein monster, despite promises to keep our info private, in fact shared and traded it – including our private messages (let that sink in) – with other Silicon Valley giants … [Read more...]
Surveyin’ da Situation: It’s open season on sense and reason in Lansing
By John Matonich A number of years ago I was reading an editorial in the Detroit News that really made me think. The editorial was about a Michigan lawmaker who had gone to the movies with her husband. Evidently, she was very unhappy with the theater when the posted starting … [Read more...]
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