When it comes to the English language, there are three rules that newspaper reporters typically follow: 1) Never use an Oxford comma. If you don’t know what that is, I’m reluctant to tell you in case you’ll start using them, but what the heck: An Oxford comma is the comma that … [Read more...]
Come Heller high water … the October 18th edition
Come Heller high water … My problem is my view of life is too simple. For instance, I think “Why would we want to be friends with or sell weapons to a country that murders and dismembers journalists?” No matter how hard I try, I can’t come up with a good answer. Must be … [Read more...]
Come Heller high water … the ‘Welcome back to the 1950s, America’ edition
Come Heller high water … What did you expect, Democrats? That Republican senators would suddenly start caring more about women, sexual assault or the sanctity of the Supreme Court than their own party and jobs? That was never going to happen. That’s the problem with … [Read more...]
Miss Michigan turned 8 seconds into this …
Miss Michigan didn’t win the Miss America pageant last week but she did win a bigger prize, I figure. R-e-s-p-e-c-t. You probably didn’t see the pageant. Relatively few did. The ratings said about four million TVs were tuned in, down about 20 percent from the previous year, … [Read more...]
The empty nest years have arrived all too soon
“The last one is finally out of the house.” That’s what I’ve been telling people in a jokey sort of guy way, with the emphasis on the word finally, as if I simply couldn’t wait for this moment to arrive. But I don’t mean a word of it. When we dropped Henry, our youngest, … [Read more...]
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