News roundup

Turns out Amway makes the best laundry detergent. But it ain't cheap. Good for laundering profits?

In the local Saginaw election my father was watching so closely, it turns out some of the ballots can't be re-counted. Williams is charging that there's trickeration going on, and Kahn is claiming victory. In general, an election fraud only has to hold up for a month or two, and then it's too late to do much about it.

Bridgeport teachers are fed up with crowded classrooms. It's pretty rich to hear Superintendant Desmon R. Daniel say, "We have the best teachers in the country... It's unfortunate we are experiencing this tension." It isn't unfortunate, it's a direct consequence of Daniel's hostility. Word on the street is that he just ignores the laws and contract provisions he doesn't like. Loses every grievance, and there have been many of them. He just loves the teachers, you know, but he wants to slap them around a little bit, too.

And finally, I see that Charles Littleton -- the SVSU student who wouldn't take off his baseball cap at a Saginaw City Council meeting -- is looking for an attorney to help him protest being Tasered. Some macho cops like to use the Taser like a cattle prod to get compliance with orders, which is flat wrong. It's a weapon and should be used for protection, not persuasion. Thing is, the sequence of events here is important. Littleton claims he was engaging in civil disobedience when he was shocked. However, there was a scuffle in which the dude broke a cop's finger (like, on purpose? Or maybe with his jaw?), and will probably have to do some jail time. I don't know just what happened in this instance, but I do know this guy is no Rosa Parks.