On the behavior of Michigan assistant attorney general Shervill: This one really is a no-brainer

 

This column was first printed in the Traverse City Record-Eagle on Oct. 10, 2010:

In the case of the assistant Michigan attorney general on a personal and vitriolic crusade against Chris Armstrong, the openly gay president of the University of Michigan student body, for the very fact that he is gay and supposedly promoting “a radical homosexual agenda” on campus, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what was wrong with the whole picture.

The state attorney general – his boss, remember – and even the ACLU were saying that he had a right to free speech.

And then it hit me.

Common sense. That’s what was wrong, or actually, missing.

A purse is a purse is a purse: Not

Originally printed in the Traverse City Record-Eagle Sept. 26, 2010
A few years ago, I asked a friend who is older than me and a widow if she might consider remarrying someday.
Her response was a firm negative. “It’s like a friend of mine told me,” she said, “at my age, all they want is a nurse or a purse.”