Mayor’s hiring of Cleaves assailed.

The mayor of Flint, Michigan needs a bodyguard now?!

The $33,000 the mayor is paying Cleaves is a sizeable chunk of what it would take to keep the Haskell Community Center open… the mayor gets a bodyguard and the only community center in one of the most poverty-stricken and violent neighborhoods of one of the most poverty-stricken and violent cities in the country is closed.

– OCTOBER – is Roller Skating month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Lenny Bruce and Paul Simon.

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Panama.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
When was the last time you felt absolutely perfect?

– Weird day yesterday. I’ll tell you about it later…

– OCTOBER – is for Orthodontia.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Hollywood Images, Hollywood Photography and Photo Prints.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Foreshadowing or Flashback?

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– THIS MORNING –
After watching the Tigers trounce the A’s yesterday (the A’s were supposed to have had the edge, but it was 5-1 at the end; a pretty boring game), Jess and I were exhausted and went to bed.

…being the most famous person on the planet.

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I chose this article from the Detroit Free-Press to sum up my thoughts: They’re no Yanks, but A’s a cast of characters.

And actually, I’ve more worry about this series than I did after Game 3 of the last.

From the New York Times:

Everyone in Detroit is waiting for the answer, after a tumultuous Friday in which Mr. Kerkorian’s close associate Jerome B. York stepped down from the General Motors board, firing off a letter sharply critical of the company’s management.

What a week.

I admit, I’ve been following both the News and the Tigers, but the latter are easier to write about and more enjoyable. That and I can’t tell you anything useful about these events other than what I think of them and what you may have read yourself.

– OCTOBER – is country ham month.
– TODAY – is Columbus Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – John Lennon.

– TIGERS –
Well, you know how this is going because it’s all I’ve been writing about. But beating the Yankees is like beating Darth Vader.

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Next Stop: Oakland.

But in a city where everyone thought this series would have been over yesterday with a Yankees sweep, a word of wisdom from the last nineteen years:

There’s always next year, Yanks.