From ABC News: “A Rhode Island public school has decided the Easter bunny is too Christian and renamed him Peter Rabbit, and a state legislator is so hopping mad he has introduced an “Easter Bunny Act” to save the bunny’s good name.The Easter bunny was scheduled to make an appearance at a craft fair...
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Elizabeth Marquardt of www.familyscholars.org reports the following:
“On a train ride tonight from Battle Creek, MI to Chicago we’re chugging along, train car is quiet, I’m tapping away on my computer. We stop at a station and a young woman gets on, plunks down in the seat behind me, starts making phone calls, ‘call me,...
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Child support expert Jane Spies of the National Family Justice Association sent me the following story, State glitch delays funds–Mom, kids have to do without (Flint Journal, 4/7/07), which tells us that a Flint, Michigan mother has had to go on general assistance because the state won’t give her the child support money that...
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Well. Mike LaSalle will undoubtedly get the final word on my first post as a privileged some-kinda-author-person @ MND. I know he can ban me at any point. I respect that, “free market theory†and all, and at the same time, I am deeply disinterested in whether Mike approves or disapproves of my voice....
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Possible future major league umpire Ria Cortesio in a discussion with couple of players and/or managers during a minor league game.
“Will the First Woman Major League Umpire Improve Baseball?â€ÂÂ
It sounds like a typical mainstream media headline, right? The one what will tell you that women entering (name whichever profession) will improve it because women...
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President George W. Bush doesn’t have the temperament or qualifications to lead the Keystone Cops. Unfortunately, he is our commander-in-chief, and the result has been an unqualified disaster in Iraq and a quickly unraveling situation in Afghanistan.  We didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we let Osama get slip...
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*Disgraced minister Ted Haggard takes a break from his rehabilitation therapy to vote for Sanjaya thousands of times each Tuesday night.  *All the 7/11 franchise owners vote for him — repeatedly.  *13-year old Ashley Ferl is a computer geek and she manipulates the vote in favor of Sanjaya.  *It’s all part...
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All governments, Federal, state and local, do dumb and irresponsible things — it’s the nature of the beast — but my home state of Michigan is cutting a trail through Idiot Jungle, overworked machete in hand, for other government boneheads to follow. If we’re not careful, we might run into California and accidentally hack...
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Victims of parental alienation, and equal custody advocates rode the CRISPE bus (Childrens Rights Initiative for Sharing Parents Equally) from southern California to Sacramento yesterday, to attend “A Day With California Legislators.” They say they were wrong when they thought they’d have a chance to tell their legislators the truth about family law from their...
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A verse in one of my favorite Merle Haggard songs, “Mama Tried,†has the narrator sadly singing, “I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole.†While I expect people to think I’m making too much of what is “just a song,†I believe this particular song has an unusual depth and a relevancy...
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A verse in one of my favorite Merle Haggard songs, “Mama Tried,†has the narrator sadly singing, “I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole.†While I expect people to think I’m making too much of what is “just a song,†I believe this particular song has an unusual depth and a relevancy...
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