LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Fresh gubernatorial material — pick your own

Dear readers: I’ll be going away for a while (no, it’s not a matter of incarceration). So, here’s something to chew on for a  fortnight. Consider it a Slo Poke for the mind.

Would you be willing to do time for $700,000 per year

Not that you have that option, but just theoretically …  would you?
Tragically, Claude McCollum was erroneously convicted of rape and murder. He spent nearly three years behind bars and was awarded $2 million in compensation this week.

What, exactly, is a ‘bold-faced lie’?

From the Detroit News:
“Attorney General Mike Cox today called new allegations that he was at a long-rumored party in 2002 at Kwame Kilpatrick’s city-owned mayoral residence 'bold-faced lies' and said he has never set foot in the Manoogian Mansion …
“They’re bold-faced lies,” Cox said today.

From no-no to 'Oh, no!' - in one pitch

Yes, Matt Garza became the first Tampa Bay Ray to throw a no-hitter, and he had to do it against our Detroit Tigers — adding to a rash of setbacks suffered by the fading Tigers.

Shooting stray pit bull a heroic community service?

I would have liked to quote this guy in my column, but he refused to let me use his  last name …
Anyway, as I wrote in Saturday’s column, an 18-month old pit bull named Rocco took five bullets after he busted an invisible fence in Grand Ledge and went missing for five days.

This says it all … or much of it, anyway

Speaking of bumper stickers, a reader name Bill snapped this photo in Los Angeles on Highway 101 last week:

The wit and wisdom of bumper stickers

On my previous blog, “rukidding” posted:
“Best bumper sticker I ever saw was in Wisconsin. It showed the back side of a dairy cow and said, ‘Come to Wisconsin and enjoy our dairy-air.’

In your face

And speaking of sociopathic motorist behavior … At the Okemos exit off eastbound I-96 earlier this week, I spied a Ford Excursion — a vehicle so big it should have one of those accordion joints, like a CATA Bus.

It's your ashtray - we're just living in it

If your cigarette butt is too disgusting to keep inside your vehicle, just flick it out your window.

'Cute, cuddly; some maintenance required ....'

Sue Wagner of Haslett saw this sign on Marsh Road on a recent Saturday: