Michigan came out a big winner in the Toledo war. They lost the Toledo Strip (and the Mud Hens and Tony Packo’s along with it), but acquired the Upper Peninsula. The U.P.’s copper alone was worth more than all the gold mined in the California Gold rush.

By the way, we desperately need a universal Federal standard for alcohol sales laws.

Bill made a number of unforced errors in 2008 while campaigning for HRC.

I got the two confused Monday night, when Wiesel’s book Night came up on Jeopardy.

My wife and I got married on a weekend for which the forecast was unending downpours Saturday through Monday. As it turned out, the rain stopped for several hours Saturday afternoon—which coincided with our ceremony and the picture-taking afterward (yes, picture-taking; this was 1983). My wife’s grandmother took…

Because of extreme drought conditions, the town where I live just issued an emergency order against setting off fireworks.

Many flagons of mead will be consumed in Reykjavík tonight.

1969: Michigan 24, Ohio State 12. I was a freshman at Notre Dame. The Irish were playing at home against Air Force (The Irish won unimpressively, and Joe Theismann got booed that afternoon). When the PA announcer said that Michigan was up 24-12 at the half, a good one-third of the student section cleared out to watch…

French riot police attempting to staunch the violence through more violence.

Most states broadened “driving while intoxicated” to “operating while intoxicated” to cover situations in which the officer didn’t see the person behind the wheel actually drive but that person was in charge of the car (for example, in a parking lot or on the sholder of the road).

I got a degree in American Studies, which qualified me for law school which, in turn qualified me for law practice—something I discovered I hated so much that I spent the next 35 years studiously avoiding.

My father told me that Mel Allen was famous for getting slurry in the late innings calling Yanke games.

I hate standard security questions like “What was the name of your first pet?” or “Who was your 4th grade teacher?” with the intensity of 10,000 blue-white suns.

Every golfer in the state of Michigan approves this message.

Gives a new meaning to “as the world terns”.

They quacked under pressure?

That sounds like something you’d find in a David Brooks column in the NYT.

They’re not the only team that has a live mascot. Colorado has Ralphie the Buffalo, a 500-pound bison. Also, Ralphie is a girl.

Mike lives in an enclosure that was recently renovated at a cost of over $1 million. I believe LSU boosters picked up the tab.

I was a student at the University of Michigan in the mid-1970s, when the drinking age was 18. At the time, fraternities were on the verge of dying. When voters raised the age to 21 in 1978 (with no “grandfather” provision!), the frats were back in business.