This week Wednesday President Obama paid a short visit to Flint at the invitation of an eight year-old and to keep attention on the water crisis. This brought out the expected chorus of grumbles: He should have been here sooner, he should have never come, he is wasting our tax … [Read more...]
Come Heller high water … the May 4th edition
Come Heller high water… Detroit teachers finally wrested a pay guarantee out of the city, which means the sick-out worked. Good for them. They should do it again if need be, and if you don’t agree ask yourself: Would I work for free? Oh, baloney, you would not. If your boss … [Read more...]
Guest column: Looking back on it, looking forward is better
Watching a "Mad Men" episode with my son one day (on Netflix of course), he off-handedly commented that Sally, the daughter of characters Don and Betty Draper, was the same age as me. "Is this really what it was like when you were growing up?" Oh, don't be silly ... wait … [Read more...]
Commercials you wouldn’t see on AndyTV
You know what I’d like? I’d like to be put in charge of which commercials get on TV and which don’t – a one-man review board, if you will. If I were, TV would be a lot less annoying than it is. You wouldn’t have commercials for oversized, manly-man pick-ups that clamber … [Read more...]
This week’s Auchtoon: Pooped out by government intolerance
There is a fantastic children's book called Everyone Poops by Tarō Gomi. It was one of our kids favorites — fun to read and engaging artwork (actual images of poop, notwithstanding). It's not much of a spoiler to tell you it's about the fact that every human, every living animal, … [Read more...]
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