LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Channel 10, where are you?

If you can’t get Channel 10 anymore, raise your hand.
If you understand why you can’t get it, take a bow.

Suspicious mind

It’s possible — is it not? — that the robust-looking  woman climbing out of a car taking up a handicapped-parking spot at Meijer has an invisible disability.
Are you willing to give her the benefit of the doubt?

The scammer’s point of view

Here’s a fresh perspective on those calls from jail. It comes from a guy who makes them. A guy, in fact, who had a head start on the other inmates because he was sent to jail for perpetrating phone scams.

Virg the Angry Mayor

Flush Joe the Plumber. We want Virg the Angry Mayor.

Oh, yeah — those wars

In case all this fuss about the economy has caused you to forget, Larry Nakfoor of Grand Ledge reminds us that our sons and daughters are still marching off  to war.

Keep their fingers from walking, too

A DeWitt woman thinks she has a low-tech, but cost-efficient, way of stopping random phone calls from incarcerated strangers.

Southwest side left for dead?

Is the southwest side Lansing’s neglected stepchild?
Southwesterner Noe Hernandez certainly thinks so. Here’s part of an e-mail he sent me:

Hard sell

‘Loss prevention’?

The masses ain’t buying it.

Holt Road is rougher than ‘Rough’

I’ve seen some rough stretches of road in my time — literally and metaphorically.
On the literal side, I can’t remember a worse piece of “pavement” than one I navigated Saturday — Holt Road, near Aurelius Road.

When the going gets tough …

Did you notice that black cloud with its silver lining showing on the front page of Friday’s State Journal?
‘PAINFUL CUTS’ side by side with ‘Food bank sets record at $1 million.’