LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Chrysler: A personal history

I hate to see Chrysler file for  bankruptcy. I really do. And yet …

Home invasion — by air

What can Reed Bente do about the supercharged car stereos that rattle windows and shred nerves in south Lansing?
Since employing a shotgun would be illegal, the only other option apparently is to move away.

‘Hang on …’ deserves hang-up

What is this — National Telephone Rudeness Week?

Bodily functions revealed

A while back a writer of a letter to the editor complained about a fellow restaurant patron whose catheter urine bag  hung, in full view, on the side of  her chair.
“I would think,” wrote K. Gallimore of Dimondale, “that, if nothing else at least she, or her husband, could cover it up with a blanket. I also think that the restaurant management should have said something to her about not being sanitary.”

Disposable cats?

BATH — Kathy Aldrich swears there’s a correlation between the end of the academic year at MSU and the  proliferation of stray cats around her house, near Rose Lake.

Earth Day tree massacre

And the Bad-Timing Award goes to ...

Gary Tarrant, who lives on Stoll Road, near DeWitt, couldn’t help but wonder why Consumers Energy picked Earth Day, which was Wednesday, to start cutting down hundreds of trees for a new gas pipeline that happens to run through his property.

Scorn the thieves; not their victims

Don’t ridicule the people who get burned by employment scams; instead, condemn those who perpetrate them.

Underground movement

Rumor has it that moles are in firm control of the earth this spring.

Talk about embarrassing …

A nun once told me, in the course of religious education, that if I insisted on tempting gravity by see-sawing on the back two legs of my chair, I surely would fall back one day and split my skull open.

No ifs, ands or square butts

What’s your position on square butts?
“Disgusting,” writes Nancy Varner.