Finding Harmony April 30, 2010 It’s written somewhere that vacations are designed to whisk you away from your daily routine, thus giving you a chance to relax and recharge. While that is a noble goal, if your job is to chronicle human behavior, sometimes it is impossible to stop working — especially if that human [...]
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Finding Harmony
April 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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The Fieger Watch
April 29th, 2010 · No CommentsThe Fieger Watch May 1, 2010 “If you build it, he will come.” — Field of Dreams, 1989 “If you hint it, they will print it.” — Geoffrey Fieger, 2010 Okay, now for the multi-million-dollar question: Will Geoffrey Fieger really run for governor again? Answer: Not on your life. Certainly not this year. Most likely, [...]
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Cultivating the Future
April 29th, 2010 · No CommentsCultivating the Future by Stephen A. Jones May 1, 2010 Sometime in the late 1980s I interviewed a regional planner at SEMCOG for a newspaper story about the impact of suburban sprawl on the metropolitan Detroit area. I no longer recall the gentleman’s name and remember the interview mainly because of an ironic joke he [...]
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Pedophilia, Lies and the Church
April 29th, 2010 · 84 CommentsPedophilia, Lies and the Church May 1, 2010 There are unforgivable sins. Sexually abusing a child is one. I was taught Catholic values — or so I thought. I attended Catholic grade school and graduated from a Catholic high school. I was taught that honesty and integrity matter. I was taught that lying, cheating and [...]
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Teacher Retirement Push Nothing to Brag About
April 22nd, 2010 · 4 CommentsTeacher Retirement Push Nothing to Brag About April 23, 2010 Next time you are out with a group of friends, ask each one to answer this question: “Who was the teacher who had the most influence on your life?” You will be surprised on two fronts: everyone will have an answer and won’t sit there [...]
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You Don’t Know This Jack
April 22nd, 2010 · 4 CommentsYou Don’t Know This Jack April 23, 2010 Have you ever thought about what it would be like to see yourself being portrayed in a movie? Would you be flattered? Outraged? Freaked out or creeped out? Though I have my own fantasies, mainly involving the sudden inheritance of vast wealth and, occasionally, major league baseball [...]
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Campaign Arm-Wrestling
April 22nd, 2010 · No CommentsCampaign Arm-Wrestling by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service April 23, 2010 In the fabled land of Klopstokia, the president was he, or she, who could out arm-wrestle everyone else. Cabinet meetings always began with the president, played by W.C. Fields in the picture Million Dollar Legs, outwrestling his cabinet members. It was a land of [...]
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Be a Directional Debbie
April 20th, 2010 · 1 CommentDirectional Debbies by T. Scott April 16, 2010 Filling out surveys has become painful. There are way too many of them, they take too much time and they provide too little sense that your answers actually mean something to the surveyor. If you feel the same way, I feel your pain. But…(you knew there was [...]
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Constitutional Roulette
April 20th, 2010 · 3 CommentsConstitutional Roulette by Tom Shields April 16, 2010 The sheer challenge of collecting a half-million signatures and raising millions of dollars to put a proposal on Michigan’s November ballot has already done its weeding job. Michigan voters will not entertain anti-mining or the anti-insurance job proposals this year. And, unless proponents of two casino-related proposals [...]
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Expanding the Brand
April 19th, 2010 · 3 CommentsExpanding the Brand Don LeDuc Guides Cooley Law School’s Dynamic Growth by Eric Freedman April 16, 2010 The Thomas M. Cooley Law School has produced so many graduates who have gone on to become judges, prosecutors, lawmakers and other officials, says political pundit Bill Ballenger, it’s become practically “the farm system” for Michigan government. In [...]
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