Hal Lee Luyah The budget balancing act that goes on in Washington this time of every year would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. Those politician balancing acts would be a sideshow, not allowed in one of the 3 rings. In the first place they say they are going to cut spending to balance […]
Newspapers that rely on subscriptions for circulation (which generates advertising dollars) have lost readers for some years now. Dailies have been particularly hard hit, but so have many weeklies. As a person who has had newspaper ink in my blood for 50-plus years, I’ve recently noticed a trend of reporters and editors lengthening their stories. […]
There’s probably more than one way to reduce the flow of garbage into Michigan from Canada, thus saving more flat lands from becoming sledding hills. My off-the-cuff method would be to have a major depression. Oh, sure it would create severe hardships, but environmentalists would love it. There would be no more space takers in […]
I had several hours to think of a reason I couldn’t take care of Haley and Trevor, even for only an hour. Thoughts of the reaction my wife would have had toward me if I didn’t take the challenge erased all excuses. I’d seen them the day before when they wanted to ride my feet […]
We’re going to ramble all over the map this week.. We all have friends and/or relatives who think Florida is the place to be sometime in winters, if not all the time. The sun alters some of their thinking. Like my friend Nick. He’s going to play golf this morning (Jan 19) starting at 8:30. […]
I’m going to prove there are things to learn you didn’t even think you needed to learn. It was taught to me by a early-20s gal on a very slow night at a restaurant. She had stood at our table long enough to hear some of our conversation, which prompted her to tell an experience. […]
This year, 2005, pay particularly close attention to your elected officials? taxing actions. I mean on all levels: village, city, township, county, state and national. Many are saying they’ve cut spending to the bone, that services are going to have to be cut, more layoffs are imminent, tsunami is hitting Michigan followed by the end […]
A woman went to the doctor’s office where she was seen by one of the younger doctors. After about four minutes in the examination room, she burst out, screaming as she ran down the hall. An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was and she told him her story. After listening he […]
Let’s ramble! First, my monthly bacon report. You didn’t think I forgot how interested you are, did you? This one is Nodine’s Apple Smoked Bacon out of Goshen, Connecticut. After being rotated in a tumbler for hours, after brining and curing, ‘The bacon is then sent over to the smokehouse, where it spends the better […]
The most frequently asked, and most boring, question to returned deer hunters is, ‘Did you shoot Bambi?? It’s the put-down of fish and fowl savers and other do-gooders who find their only joy in life is picketing and playing with their Palm Pilot. For 10 years no one has shot ‘Bambi? in our camp. This […]