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Holidays drain empty pocketbooks

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Merry Christmas, everybody! What? It’s a little early for Christmas, you say? I thought the same, until I noticed the astonishing number of Christmas lights already up around town, and the multiple Detroit radio stations emitting exclusively holiday cheer from their towers. I apologize for the lateness of this story. By ration of the world [...]

A case for class cancellation

By JESSICA McLEAN

The latest word on the street, according to Glenn MacIntosh, dean and assistant vice president of student affairs, is that classes are not cancelled. Unless your professor feels like it.

Addiction starts at $60 per disc

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On Nov. 8, World War 3 begins. No, not the literal destruction of our physical planet. This day marks the release of the third installment of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, the eighth game with the COD namesake and the umpteenth time I’ll shell out well over $100 to this juggernaut company.

Halloween horrors on a decline

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Forget ghosts, zombies, loose wild animals or an army of completely incompetent GOP candidates – what’s real scary this fall is how horrible Halloween has gotten. Kids don’t celebrate the holiday anymore, not like how we used to get down. Halloween attendance is down roughly 62 percent of what it was ten years ago. Also, [...]

Major League Baseball is for fatties

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It’s no surprise I hate sports. I’ve complained about it plenty of times; it’s one of the things my life depends on. On the flipside of that, I love being active and promoting good health, while smoking a cigarette. I really am an advocate of regular exercise and think there should be more of an [...]

24 Hours in Kresge Library

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Now that Kresge Library is open 24 hours on weekdays, I decided I should embrace the college atmosphere and live in the library for an entire day. No breaks, just pure Hell.

TOP 10

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Top 10 things we’d like to see happen at the GOP debate in November

Fans: worse than fumbled plays

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I’ve never been a real big Lions fan. Not enough to say I ever hated them, but I would normally continue to bet my hard-earned money against them.

Bummed-out Birthday *<:(

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Just recently I celebrated a birthday, and besides the normal melancholy ghost that follows me each year my hairline recedes, it got me wondering, what’s the point of celebrating?

Dancin’ in the Hurricane Rains

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Come on, Irene. I swear what I mean. In this moment, you mean everything. I can’t help but hum this happy tune each time I’ve turned on the TV to hear about the latest natural disaster, named aptly after one of my favorite 80′s tunes.

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