Our fair state, as you may have read on today’s front page, is too fat. Nearly 30 percent of Michigan adults are obese.
A likely cause: incomes are down and bad calories are cheap.
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Sherry Fisher took offense to reader Bill Bryde’s reference, in Monday’s column, to the singing motorcycle woman as a “motorcycle mama.”
Evidently that term is considered an extreme insult in the motorcycling-American culture.
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My friends who coach youth baseball tell me a new term for a bad call from an umpire has entered the sandlot lexicon: “Joyced.”
As in: “Man, you got Joyced on that play.”
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It became a national story last week that public-assistance clients in California were using their CalWORKS cards (the equivalent of Michigan Bridge Cards) to withdraw cash benefits from ATMs at casinos.
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Now I’m worried. An Asian carp showed up within six miles of Lake Michigan — on the wrong side of the electric barrier that was supposed to keep the invading mongrels out of the Great Lakes.
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Therese Dawe was at Lansing’s Evergreen Cemetery, visiting the graves of her in-laws recently, when she came upon a marker that took her breath away.
She e-mailed me this photo:
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You’ve probably been getting e-mails warning you to stay away from plastic pop bottles that show up, say, on your porch, or in your mailbox.
It sounds like just another Internet hoax, but it’s not.
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The space once occupied by the recently departed Dimiti’s Restaurant, in downtown Lansing, will soon house (yawn) a branch office of (yawn) the MSU Federal Credit Union.
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We've rolled out a new look for John's blog. Along with the new design we've upgrade many of the features in the comment section.
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