(This column was published in the Petoskey News Review on Aug 25, 2015 There’s a scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” during which a town has accused a young woman of being a witch. One of King Arthur’s soon-to-be-knights attempts to sort out the mess through a series of questions aimed at proving […]
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The Sanctity of Marriage; The Legend of Courser and Gamrat
By now the public knows what everyone in Lansing already knew…and knew for many months: Republican/Tea Party State Representatives Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat were having a very thinly veiled affair. Other Reps knew it, lobbyists knew it, Gamrat’s husband knew it, the hotel where they met frequently knew it, the Lansing police knew it, […]
- An open letter to my students…all of them…
- These are the times; Paine and Trump
- I’m an Elitist:Is that a slam?
- The Constitution: Just what are we protecting anyway?
- Word Inflation; Just how do you tell someone to F-off?
- Divorcing Friends; It’s not you…it’s me.
- Engage! Engage! Engage!
- Tales from Kosovo: “100% dead”
- John Engler: Terrorist
- Lessons from Sarajevo
- Did trump fork up? Looking at Iran
- The Catholic Church, The Pieta, and Me
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