Washington was a shrewd businessman and the kind of manager who loved to tinker. If he thought that mastering 21st-century techology would make him money, he’d dive right in.

When I was growing up, several families in our neighborhood not only enforced a no-shoes edict but also covered their upholstery with plastic.

Last year, political campaigns relentlessly spammed people with “urgent” requests for money. The most offensive spams had the subject line “Hey.” Whoever came up with that bright idea deserves a public flogging.

What’s scary is that a significant percentage of these people do have IQs above 100, but they have abandoned any pretense of critical thinking and instead get all of their political opinions from right-wing media. A friend of mine calls this condition “Fox rabies.”

My high school, a Catholic boys’ school, is not guilty of terrible sex eduction. It didn’t teach any. This was in 1965-69; and, as Rick Santorum will gladly tell you, rampant sex didn’t start until August 1969, when Woodstock happened (can we call it the Big Bang Theory?)

Maybe Jimmy Haslam can mismanage his franchise so badly that the league will pass a rule named after him, as the NBA did with the Cavaliers’ Ted Stepien and trading draft choices.

My wife and I flew to California for the Michigan-Washington State Rose Bowl played in 1998. As we waited to board the flight, we noticed several state legislators who bragged that they had been given complimentary tickets by U-M’s athletic department. (They were also holding first-class tickets.) What made this…

It’s about the fact the cost of higher education has risen at a higher rate of inflation than health care

He’s coming dangerously close to losing his exclamation point privileges.

Or, perhaps, a representative of a bowl committee.

A friend of mine said that he’d support a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution if it also banned the display of any flag used as a banner of armed insurrection against the United States.

There are three casinos in Detroit.

Two of the three teams you mentioned have won multiple championships within the past 58 years. The Lions, not so much. So yes, I agree with you.

That finish, combined with blowing a 20-point lead, guarantees that Jim Caldwell will be shown the door at season’s end. Addition by subtraction.

We had a good time, and we brought home some Hatch chiles* and pinon nuts.

He’s a member of U-M’s All Units of Measurement team, along with Jerry Meter, Larry Foote, and Jeremy Gallon.

The first paragraph from his Facebook post is a good example of a Palindrome, a word coined to describe Sarah Palin’s word salads. It means writing that makes no sense, whether read forwards or backwards.

The famous Rosa Parks bus has been restored, and can be found at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Mrs. Blue Lion and I, along with thousands of others, have taken a seat inside the bus.

That was an extraordinarily dumb commercial, even for that series. It’s amazing that it got out of the ad agency. Don Draper, even at his drunkest, would have realized how bad it was.

If you go by the standard metric system prefixes, it would take 1 million microaggressions to equal one aggression.