When the movie, “A Perfect Storm,” came out with its all-star cast in 2000, I was overcome by a wave of PTSD as I thought of a storm a few decades earlier in Lake St. Clair on an otherwise pleasant Sunday afternoon. During that summer, I crewed on a 27-foot sailboat owned by my friend, …
These are interesting times for the expression of civil liberty. The tension between individual risk and personal responsibility and public safety and enforcement has always existed. The public health restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic raised a furor over whether the government can really enforce such restrictions without public consent. In theory, public health laws …
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George Morrow of Cheboygan, at the tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, wrote a message to the world in 1926: “Will the person who finds this bottle return this paper…” He put the message in a green bottle like so many people in human history. Some have dropped urgent messages like Are Wiking, a …