Okay. So it’s been what, three, four week’s worth of Tuesdays since folks cast their votes in the Presidential Primary election? (Trust me, it has.) I don’t know about you, but I am glad it’s over. I was getting pretty agitated by the amount of robo calls I was getting on my cell phone telling […]
Every day in America, according the latest statistics, 63 adolescents die as a result of suicide. Across the nation, communities are coming together to discuss what most folks don’t want to talk about: suicide. Lake Orion is one of those communities. On Feb. 27, for nearly two straight hours parents, students, teachers, clergy, law enforcement […]
Recording artist Kanye West was wrong when he said something to the effect, ‘George Bush doesn’t like black people.? George Bush doesn’t like people of any color if they come from Michigan. It seems clear to me the future of Michigan (near term) is murky at best — and we can thank, in part, United […]
It may seem abrupt or too good to be true, but the start of ‘summertime? will be here this weekend. I know it’s been a winter wonderland of about two-point-three accumulative inches of snow this season, but, just like last year, taking that leap forward in time in March don’t seem right. So, I will […]
By Don Rush If newspapers are the cement that binds the members of a community to each other, then social media websites must be the rubber bands that stretch and snap people back home. Case in point is right here – in Lake Orion, Mich. With the help of social media mega-site Facebook, a group […]
So, there I was. All snuggled up, warm and cozy under the blankies, lying in bed reading some cheap pulp fiction (Black Rain, by Graham Brown). It was last Wednesday night, around 8:30. As my eyes scanned the letters before me, I noticed the wind pickup behind me, outside. Soon there after, I heard a […]
As of this writing, the fate of the free world is precariously sitting atop a pinpoint — one bad gust o? wind and evil will prevail over goodness. Well, maybe that’s a little melodramatic. Yet as I write, folks in Lansing are still trying to look good to their favorite special interest groups. I don’t […]
As a parent, I think it’s incumbent upon me to make sure the lads, Shamus and Sean, get a well-rounded education. Their public school district takes care of the reading, writing, ‘rymetic, social reprogramming and brainwashing. Their mother makes sure of their manners and other social graces, like personal hygiene and saying things like, ‘please,? […]
It’s the first of October, the beginning of the month so it must be time to clean out the message center, get rid of scribbled notes and in general clean up September’s mess. I received a couple of phone calls from the same Oxford resident wanting to share some love . . . not with […]
Once in a while being the cheapest dad in town (and the meanest) has benefits. Aside from not spoiling the lads Shamus and Sean with tons of electronic crap they’ll forget as soon as the newest and coolest electronic crap hits the streets, it sometimes saves us from broadcast media feeding frenzies. See, I don’t […]