Joel On The Road

Of rats and humans

Joel — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:53:51 +0000

By Joel Thurtell What kind of human being would do this: Fire 6,000 employees, freeze the pay of those who remain and then demand they take 12 percent pay cuts. And give himself a 50 percent raise, banking $4.7 million in a single year. What kind of human being would pay herself $4 million, almost [...]

Who’s corrupt?

Joel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:40:11 +0000

By Joel Thurtell A retired newspaper reporter was fuming about John and Monica Conyers. How could John Conyers, the Detroit congressman, not have known his wife was awash in bribe money while she was a member of the City Council? I need to mention that this was coming from an American who worked for American [...]

They never ask the dog

Joel — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:54:50 +0000

By Peppermint Patti JOTR Columnist It’s not fair to blame it all on the two-leggers, Sophie. And yet. It’s hard for me to see how I myself could be to blame. Was it my decision to load up a car till it couldn’t hold any more of their crapola and then put all sorts of [...]

What’s wrong with the yard

Joel — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:15:51 +0000

By Peppermint Patti JOTR Columnist I’ll tell you about my summer from hell later, Sophie. Right now, I want to know what in the world happened to all the bush-tails? When we left this place, there was a spring crop of shavetail bush-butts waiting to be chased back up the trees. The lawn was rampant [...]

Florent Tillon’s ‘bonus’

Joel — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:44:01 +0000

By Joel Thurtell French filmmaker Florent Tillon e-mailed the “bad news”: Instead of including our July 2009 motorboat trip up the Rouge River as part of his main feature movie, “Detroit Wild City,” he turned our river excursion into a 12-minute stand-alone video. This is “bad news”? Sounds great to me. Instead of playing a [...]