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by Lynn Mandaville I'm pretty sure everyone who reads this is familiar with the phenomenon of suicide by cop. For those who aren't, it's when a suicidal person creates a…

With the election of a new president, the losing side always has a problem adjusting to the loss and accepting of the new president and his political ideas. It was the…

“With an oink oink here, an oink oink there, here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink oink.”       — Old MacDonald Had a Farm It was 1981,…

Review of "Good Time" ***1/2 out of five stars Currently showing at Celebration! Cinema RiverTown in Grandville A bank heist gone awry with two brothers, a smart one and a…

by Lynn Mandaville The name Harvey used to evoke in me memories of an old Jimmy Stewart film about a wealthy, eccentric man named Elwood P. Dowd whose companion is…

I hereby humbly ask the Federal Communications Commission to lift its unfair ban on the word “bullshit” in the mistaken belief it is profane. The word has climbed into common…

Whenever I would write an article and mention Barack Obama and was chastised for not addressing him as President Obama, I agreed with their viewpoint, and as much as I…

Review of Drone ***1/2 out of five stars Currently available in video  "Drone" is a taut little thriller about Neil Wistin (Sean Bean), an employee of a military contractor to…

"Surprise, Surprise, Surprise" — Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gomer Pyle USMC." It’s only been a little more than a week into the fall sports season, and…