While staying at Karmanos hospital, I have seen patients arrive in cars, cabs, ambulances and buses. But, I was surprised to look out the window and see a stretch limo.

It made me wonder if there was an accident at a wedding. Or maybe a high school home coming event went array. But, as I watched the limo, I saw a stream of visiting doctors file into the limo.

Mystery solved.

It seems like all of the cafeterias that I have eaten in lately offer only two choices: starch or grease. And the one here at Karmanos hospital is no exception.

For example, at breakfast, they offer scrambled eggs with cheese, biscuits with sausage gravy, hash browns, macaroni and cheese, bacon and sausages. And, I have seen people load up their plate with all of these and then have the whole thing covered with gravy.

Now, this is one of those Catch 22 situations. The people who want the grease and starch are the ones who eat in the cafeteria. So, that is what the cafeteria serves. The people who want healthy food, don’t eat in the cafeteria because the cafeteria doesn’t serve healthy food. And, if the cafeteria started serving healthy food instead of the grease and starch, the grease and starch customers would leave.

But, it probably all boils down to profits. There is more money to be made with 50 pounds of potatoes than there is with 50 pounds of strawberries.

During our latest stay at Karmanos hospital, the room that we were in had an electric window. I am not talking about the one in the door, I am talking about the little one next to the door.

By flipping one of the light switches, the window goes from clear to frosted. And while it is really kind of cool, it is not very practical. After all, it really doesn’t let in much light so why bother? If you need more light then open the blinds on the door instead.

This was obviously someones neat idea that got the blessing of the hospital administration.

Over the years, I have seen a number of businesses move from their modest location to a more glamorous one and then go out of business a few years later.

A clothing store, that had been in business for almost a 100 years in downtown Grand Rapids, moved to the suburbs. They only lasted 10 more years in their new building.

A furniture store that I frequented in an older neighborhood of Lansing, moved after 50 years to a new location in a prime business district. It was gone in two years.

A book store across from the MSU campus was a landmark for many years. But, when they put up a new building, they soon went out of business.

The latest was a high end furniture store in Grand Rapids. They moved to a new location in the burbs and closed after a year.

Now, with all of these businesses, their success was their product and not their location. But, by moving, they only increased their overhead and not their sales. And so, their successful businesses floundered.

Well, OK, so maybe it is not a war but it is certainly a border dispute between Ohio and Kentucky. But, unlike the war between Ohio and Michigan, this dispute centers around a rock in the Ohio River.

It seems that there was a famous rock in the river between Ohio and Kentucky. But, at some point in time, the river got too high and the rock could no longer be seen. Then, when the river went down, some good people from Ohio decided to remove the rock from the river so that it would be safe. Unfortunately, the citizens of Kentucky didn’t appreciate the fact that the rock was removed and demanded that it be returned.

Petty disputes are a sure sign of an improving economy.

The Catholic church has a shortage of qualified Exorcists. So, in an effort to correct this, they are offering a two day class on how to perform exorcisms.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the mid-term elections?

I saw the word “FCUK YOU” written on an bridge in Detroit. I guess this is a good indication of the quality of education in the Detroit schools.

Recently, while working at church, myself and two women were asked to make some banners. And, since these banners were over 50 feet long, they gave us a laser to make sure things were straight.

Now, the laser was about the size of a large tape measure. And, it was easy to use.

But, when we were finished, we decided to try to shut it off. Seeing a lever on the back, the woman who was using it, pushed it down. She immediately threw the laser into the air and announced that she had just been tasered!

After I examined the laser, I determined that what she thought was the off switch was really just a slide for a centering pin. In short, when she pushed down what she believed to be the off switch, she stuck herself with the built in point.

One of the hot new TV programs of the year is “Sister Wives”. It is a real life story about a man and his 4 wives.

Obviously, this is a Mormon family. But, more to the point, for them, polygamy is not about sex, it is about religion.

Mormons believe that there are millions of souls waiting to inhabit bodies. Once every soul has been given a body, the new heaven and the new earth will be established. So, the way to bring on the new heaven and earth is to provide bodies for all of those souls. And, they do this by, well, having children. Lots and lots of children. And, in the end, if they practice polygamy, they well get their own planet in the after life.

Now, while I don’t personally agree with their theology, I am hard pressed to condemn polygamy. After all, the Bible is full of it. But, I am sure that it is only a matter of time before the Feds shut them down.

The Governor of Florida says that he may pardon Jim Morrison for indecent exposure at a 1969 concert.

Well, this is nice of him. I am sure Jim will appreciate the gesture. But, I doubt that Jim will be coming back to Florida any time soon. You see, Jim has been dead for 40 years.

So, what is the point? Maybe the Governor doesn’t know that Jim is dead. Or, maybe he is trying to impress the Jim Morrison/Doors fan club. What ever the reason for the pardon, I doubt that Jim will care one way or the other.