LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

The lawn-mowing dilemma facing us this weekend …

Do we try to wait until the grass thoroughly dries out, which will ensure that it will be knee-high before we can cut it?
Or, do we plunge in now (and I mean that literally) and put up with the always-dispiriting wet-grass mess?

 

Prison for 29 months seems about right for Holt teen

On June 8, about a week after he completes classes at Holt High School, 17-year-old Brett Johnson, the drunk driver in a Jan. 30 crash that killed three of his teenage passengers, will learn his official fate.

A royal mystery

I really, truly, absolutely positively do not understand the fascination with that impending wedding over there in the U.K.
Was there ever a chickier chick thing?
Is there a single guy out there who cares about this?

Gas fill-up knocks the heck out of a C-note

At $4.17 per gallon, it cost me $69.96 to fill up my Explorer Tuesday morning at the QD at Jolly and Dunckel. I didn’t have the heart to squeeze in that final four cents’ worth.

Who comes up with these detours?

One reader called this one “insane”:
“The ramp from westbound M-43/Grand River Avenue to northbound U.S. 127 will be closed until May 20 as crews work to add an extra lane along U.S. 127 between Grand River Avenue and Lake Lansing Road.
“A detour directs drivers to use southbound U.S. 127 to Dunckel Road, to northbound U.S. 127.”

A prescription for insanity

A 30-day supply of a medicine crucial to my mother’s well-being would have cost me $215 out of pocket, even with a $100 discount from CVS Pharmacy. Instead, I got a 90-day supply of the same medicine  — from the same place — for a $10 co-pay.

Can the grief counselors be far behind?

This might be the first-ever candlelight vigil for a bar … On the other hand, maybe not — people do become attached to their watering holes.

If smokers need not apply, how about fat people?

This week’s edition of City Pulse includes an intriguing little tidbit about a Sparrow Hospital employment policy that was, then wasn’t …

Snyder’s ‘road to fascism (the American kind!) ...’

Here’s how the Washington D.C.-based blog Wonkette sees the state law, endorsed by Gov. Rick Snyder, that gives broad new powers to emergency managers appointed  to run local governments and schools with financial problems:

New Chevy billboards speak my language

I can't deny it. Having grown up in Detroit in the muscle-car age - and having personally owned a '57 Chevy for two glorious summers  - I must admit that these billboards, recently posted around Detroit, make my heart flutter:

http://www.rockinghammemories.net/chevybillboards.html