Apparently there is no shame any longer....
The mayor of Detroit, amid all these shenanigans, has the temerity to speak to his constituents from a church--from a church! Then, his wife comes on to ask for support for Hizzoner--his wife!
And, yet again, I read in the Free Press, "The Morning Friendly," a family newspaper, curse words. I wrote to the reporter who used the direct quote, but harbor no illusions that anything will come of it. The past half dozen or more such protests met with no responses and, obviously, no change of policy. I said, yet again, that my rule might well be that I would write nothing, not even a direct quotation, in my column/story that I wouldn't say in front of my young children (or grandchildren) or my mother and father.
Apparently, in my older age, I have become a Victorian prude! Yet, look at all of the difficulties we are having socially in our culture. No, I'm not a member of the Christian right. But I think that there are standards of decency that shouldn't be "dumbed down."
Just one man's lonely opinion.
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- Ron Marinucci
- I have been married to Karen for 47 of my 73 years. I have two sons, Mike and Matt, both adults (at least in chronological age), and three grandchildren. I am retired, I suppose. I continue to teach college history, part-time; I still enjoy it, although the increasing amount of silly paperwork is grating and will likely be what drives me to fully retire. I have a BA in history from Amherst College and three graduate degrees. I do a little writing, too, some of which actually brings in some money.
2 comments:
Much like the evening news…. Newspapers are no longer in the business of reporting the news. They are in the entertainment business. They will gladly piss off 25% of their audience if it will bring in more of the “right” readers, the ones advertisers drool over. The newspapers are in for a world of hurt. 27% of the people get all or most of their news from the Internet. Yet only 7% (or 9%, can’t quite remember) of the advertising dollars are spent online. That will shift very quickly from the print world to the virtual word.
As for the Mayor, he is an embarrassment to just about every group he is associated with, as a man he is an embarrassment, as a father he is an embarrassment, as a husband he is an embarrassment, as a politician he is an embarrassment (that is incredibly difficult to do). The city will forget that his crime was perjury, they will forgive him for the affair, hell his wife has already, (sure she has) how can the city be expected to not forgive him when she has. The city will forget about the police officers lives he tried to ruin, they will forget about the millions of dollars he has stolen from them. They will forgive him. Hell they will reelect him. The only hope is for an indictment against him from the Wayne County Prosecutor. Hold your breath for that one; this is an election year for her.
Right on the money. How few of the letters-to-the-editor in the newspapers cite the lives he has ruined!
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