LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Those other Hallmark moments

At what point can you throw away a greeting card without feeling like a heel?

A warm fuzzy about a cold fuzzy

A Younkers sales clerk and some compassionate shoppers teamed up recently to rescue a starving cat.

Off with the heads

The federal government must rescue the domestic auto industry, but not the three amigos. The CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler must go.

Sinking feeling for GM pensioners

I got a call Friday from a fearful-sounding GM pensioner who wanted to know how a badly a GM bankruptcy might screw up his future.

It’s official: We’re jittery

It’s gift card season and a reader recently posed, via e-mail, this fully loaded question:
“Subject: gift cards. Are store clerks/managers required to answer honestly if a customer asks about possible plans for the store’s closing?”

Pot of gold

Obviously the passage of  the medical marijuana proposal has created one big sticky wicket.
But we all know how to put the confusion to rest.

Cabo San Time-share

One blemish on the Mexican paradise at the tip of the Baja Peninsula: relentless hawking from all directions. And I do mean relentless.

Oh, yeah … THAT code

Among all this talk of building codes and obligations, Lorraine Hickman of Lansing raised an excellent question:
Whatever happened to the code of decency?

A frosty reception?

I saw “Frost/Nixon” at Wharton Wednesday night. Since the flame of my career choice was fanned by Watergate, I, for one, was entranced.

Help me Obi-Wan …

The goofiest moment of the TV election coverage: CNN’s “beamed in” correspondent hologram.