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The holy kiss and the hard work of loving one another

In Bill Watterson’s great comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin, 6, is horrified when informed that he kissed a girl before bed last night. After a moment he makes an exception to the rules of his G.R.O.S.S. club (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS). “Smooching is optional if it’s your mom” he ...

PROTECTIVE NETTING AND ELECTIONS

I’m concerned. I suspect you are as well. That old expression, “If it’s not one thing, it’s another,” applies more often and more intensely now. It’s like a foul ball coming out of left field that shatters your windshield, immediately followed by a wild pitch that takes out a ...

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Michigan forestlands have nearly a hundred species of trees, according to the Forest Service inventory program. Add a few more species if you count those in urban and residential areas. An eclectic group of obscurities occupy a small, but interesting, fraction of our forest volume. As ...

Lumberjack Legends Hall of Fame induction

Sitting in the warm glow of Granum Theatre watching the 1976-77 Lumberjack men’s basketball team’s induction into the Lumberjack Legends Hall of Fame, it occurred to me once again the enduring power of positive connection. Coach Bill Morse’s 1976-77 Lumberjack team finished the season ...

Paranoia over CNN turning ‘MAGA-friendly,’ like CBS!

For months, ideological enforcer journalists who intensely labor to keep left-wing elitist media outlets as leftist and anti-Trump as possible have been panicking over the Ellisons getting their hands on CNN and turning it into -- cue siren noises -- another CBS News. Paramount has been ...

Let the word go forth: The truth about Trump

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump is not just a bad president. "King" is too good a word for the likes of him. What Trump truly is shall be written in the end. Andrew Johnson was the worst president we've had until now. A Southerner who was Abraham Lincoln's vice president, he took office in 1865 ...