Daily Archives: January 31, 2011

The Price is Wrong, Wayne

I love grocery shopping. I love “The Price Is Right.” But unlike, say, peanut butter and chocolate, combining two things I love rarely works out. (The pumpkin + polenta tasted, my daughter said, “just a tiny bit like puke.”) Back on track: I don’t want to play “The Price Is Right” when I’m doing my…

Shooting blanks with Pete Hoekstra, a frontrunner with everyone but the voters

Pistol Pete Hoekstra is back in the news, which just goes to show you that you can’t keep a mediocre man down.   Hoekstra had an undistinguished 16 years in Congress before Rick Michigan crushed him in the 2010 Republican gubernatorial campaign, one in which Hoekstra was supposedly the frontrunner.  Now he’s being touted as the…