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A modest proposal
(This piece was originally posted at Ditching Otis.)There has been a small outcry in the sports world over the past few days after a blown call by umpire Jim Joyce cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando...
View ArticleThe coach and the professor
Mitch Albom on MSU criticism of media coverage of Tom Izzo's flirtation with the Cleveland Cavaliers:Tuesday night's gathering bordered on choosing a pope. A school president gushing over keeping --...
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(This piece was originally posted at Ditching Otis.)I have a confession to make. I’m not an unbiased reader of Tom Bissell. I have a not-entirely rational investment in writers from my alma mater, and...
View ArticleThe best of Wordwright
Wordwright has been around for more than five years now, and it seemed an opportune time to collect some of the keepers. Thus here, in reverse chronological order, are 16 posts that hold up well, offer...
View ArticleThe library is worth supporting
(An edited version of this letter was run in the June 30 edition of Lansing City Pulse)In 2005, my wife and I moved back to the Lansing area after an unsuccessful year looking for work in Detroit and...
View ArticleThree final reasons to vote "yes" on renewing the CADL millage
(Originally published at www.supportcadl.org)1. Library usage is up, not down. In fact, it's way up. And CADL is not asking for one penny of increased funding. Not one penny Seriously.2. If the millage...
View ArticleI'm never in favor of book burnings
A few thoughts which probably don't qualify as full-fledged opinions:That crazy pastor in Florida has every right to burn whatever book he wants, just as I have every right to criticize him for it and...
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Know your battles
Let me start off, like a good academic, with a caveat. I read the political cartoonist Chuck Asay pretty regularly, and while this in no way implies that I agree with the man on a regular basis, it...
View ArticleAnother fantasy political speech
I'm just sick over the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona over the weekend, which left six people dead, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl.I don't have that much...
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