It was on this day in 1587 that Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed for suspicion of being involved in the plot to kill her sister, Queen Elizabeth I. Somehow I don’t think it went quite like the BBC radio broadcast penned by Monty Python, but it’s nice to think about. On that note, let’s play the friday5.org Friday Five before it gets to be Saturday here. 1. When did you last use graphing paper?I might have used some in high school algebra or trigonometry…

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Now, as a public service, I will repeat the introduction to today’s blog entry for the hard of hearing: TODAY IS GARRETT MORRIS’ 71ST BIRTHDAY!!! Okay, it doesn’t translate so well to written form, but those of you my age or older and laughing right now, admit it. On that note, let’s play the friday5.org Friday Five! 1. Which open-all-night establishment has been a lifesaver for you?Meijer. Whether I need some doughnuts, underwear, or duct tape at three in the morning, it’s just an eight-minute…

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Although I’ll still think of George Kell and Al Kaline’s WDIV broadcasts when I think of the Tigers of my youth, there is no question that Ernie Harwell will always be the voice of the Tigers. Although he "retired" several years ago, he still pops in to do colour commentary on the odd game for Fox Sports Net Detroit, and famously gave advice to current play-by-play commentator Mario Impemba on how to call a no-hitter just a couple of weeks before Justin Verlander threw his…

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… because Wikipedia can’t seem to make up its own mind, but anyway, it was a decade ago today or yesterday that Matt Drudge posted on that Website of his that Newsweek was sitting on a story about then-President Clinton having an affair with one of his interns, Monica Lewinsky. Remember what we as a country went through in the following couple of years, and compare that to what congressional Democrats have done so far to hold the current administration accountable for what they did…

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Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was born. He was Prime Minister for most of the time I regularly caught those two great Canadian political satire shows, Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and his willingness to appear on the latter show multiple times just reinforced in my mind how much better Canadian politics are than ours. Contrast that to Nancy Pelosi’s admonition to first-year Representatives not to appear on The Colbert Report‘s "Better Know a District" segment. Sigh. Anyway, let’s…

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