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How some TV may make aliens attack us

Andy Heller
November 5, 2009

“Newsweek” magazine had a chart in it recently that worries me. It should probably worry you, too, unless you’re not concerned about the end of humanity as we know it. If that’s the case then go back to watching “Deal or No Deal” and forget I mentioned it. Just don’t be surprised when the planet is atomized, OK? Anyhow, the chart was a photo of the earth from space over which an artist had placed radiating concentric circles, above which were the names of TV shows from the past 70 years. I was personally not aware of this fact, but apparently once a TV show is broadcast, the signal keeps right on going into outer space forever and ever. The earliest televised baseball game and the first ever televised presidential address by FDR, for instance, have already traveled 400 trillion miles. “The Twilight Zone,” “Bonanza” and “The Untouchables” are something like 60 light years out, “Seinfeld” is 30 light years out, and so forth.

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Making government work for business

November 3, 2009

Across Michigan and the nation, our small businesses are struggling under a dual burden. The economic downturn that has cut into demand for goods and services would be quite enough to contend with.

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Halloween costumes you might see soon

October 29, 2009

Ding dong!

“Trick or treat!”

“My, my, what frightening costumes this year. Let’s see we have a mummy, a bloody hobo and a scary, scary Ninja.

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Dualism not the inevitable force

October 27, 2009

I was given a gift when growing up in Flint. My parents raised me in a two story postwar house with one room upstairs that ran the width of the home. That room was my room and I shared it with a much younger brother.

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Pharm parties scarier than haunted house

October 22, 2009

I dutifully took my 10-year-old through a haunted house last weekend.

It did nothing for me. They never do. That’s the price of being an adult. You lose the ability to fear things that can’t possibly be real.

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WPPI Energy president reports continued strength

October 17, 2009

WPPI Energy is the nonprofit power supplier for consumer-owned Gladstone Power & Light and Alger Delta Electric Cooperative Association.

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