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...]
Auchtoon Time: The least welcome sign of spring
Text & toon by John Auchter The songwriting credit for the majority of Beatles songs is listed as "Lennon-McCartney," but in truth most of the songs were composed individually by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. One of the more famous examples of actual collaboration in the … [Read more...]
This week’s Auchtoon: Maybe Michigan’s new flag should come with an acerbic twist
Last month, Rick DeVos complained aloud via Twitter that the state flag of Michigan was "ugly" and "non-useful." Well, sharing needlessly judgmental observations is what Twitter is for, so we likely would have all moved quickly on to the next snark if DeVos wasn't (a) the founder … [Read more...]
This just in: None of the Above will win the Michigan primary
By Andrew Heller A CNN report we’ll see Tuesday night if any sanity is left in the world … “This is Ted Hairgel reporting live from Michigan where, in a stunning development, None of the Above has won the Republican presidential primary here. With me now is none other than … [Read more...]