The recent preemption and television broadcast restoration of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC should remind us to be clear-headed about our right to free speech in the United States of America in 2025, and in which sorts of media free speech is even possible.
September was Suicide Awareness Month. In Michigan 60% of firearm deaths are suicides; each statistic is a person and a life that mattered.
The diagnosis, following an expensive computed tomography scan, was a small bowel obstruction caused by eating too many raw vegetables.
I had overdosed on salad.
I have jokingly responded to people asking “How are you doing?” with “I’m riding the wave and flipping off the sharks!” Truly, I’ve never surfed a day in my life. I use the phrase as a metaphor for an approach to living—a basic philosophy.
August sped by in a blur, due to my full calendar, so I have been really looking forward September. Since early September is not technically autumn, I was expecting late summer weather this past week.
The events in New York City on September 11, 2001, separate what came before and all that has happened since in American society. The front page of the Heralds and Independent all described local residents as “stunned” by the tragedy, when several commercial airplanes were hijacked and crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, causing thousands of casualties.
Democracy as we once knew it is different today.
Michigan’s Public Act 451 purports to require school to begin after Labor Day. Most Michigan schools do not.