That number will likely grow. For years, we've been demanding less taxes and more services. As a result, as the governor's report says, "many governments in Michigan are spending more than they are taking in. To support their spending, they have drained their savings, borrowed money, and failed to put money away for liabilities."

This is a problem that's been building for many years, of course. But our leaders and our media never bothered to tell you about it.

Pretty soon, one way or another, we'll be living with the consequences. But meanwhile — aren't those Kardashian girls great!

Violence porn: But back to pornography — there's a new and disturbing trend in the business that has nothing to do with sex: Violence porn. You can go to any local newspaper website and watch the police video of lowlife Lamar Moore shooting up a Detroit police station, wounding four officers before he is fatally shot to death. Other than to provide a primer for how to shoot up a police station, is there any reason to put this on the Internet?

Of course not, except that a lot of people get their jollies by watching violence. Newspapers regularly do this sort of thing now.

I fully expect we'll soon be able to watch Gabrielle Giffords getting drilled though the head, at least once the trial starts. Yes, this is tasteless. But in the words journalists like to use as a substitute for intelligent thought, we can always say it's the public's right to know.

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