David Panian

@davidpanian.bsky.social

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Editor at The Tecumseh Herald in Tecumseh, Michigan, covering local government, education, business and public safety. Formerly worked at The Daily Telegram in Adrian, Michigan. University of Michigan alumnus; Detroit sports and Star Wars fan; Chemic.

Getreidegasse in Salzburg, the street where Mozart's family lived when he was born, is pictured in March 2007 on a rainy day with people carrying umbrellas on the narrow street with five-story buildings from the 17th or 18th centuries on either side. The ground floors have stores.
Members of the University of Michigan baseball team stand like bodyguards behind pitcher Shane Brinham as he does a postgame TV interview after beating Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament.
A Cuban sandwich on a white plate with a pickle spear and a bag of potato chips at McAlister’s in Adrian, Michigan.
Aday Mara of the Michigan’s men’s basketball team is interviewed after U-M beat Ohio State 71-67 in the Big Ten Tournament. Standing stoically and wearing sunglasses over Mara’s right shoulder is Morez Johnson Jr. Other team members are also gathered around. I’m too lazy to look up who they are. Sorry, guys.
A view of the Grand Canyon in whiteout conditions at 7:53 a.m. MST Feb. 18, 2026. (Via Grand Canyon National Park)
An empty box of Justin Verlander’s Fastball Flakes cereal.
Detroit Tigers great Mickey Lolich, wearing dark, wraparound sunglasses and a dark green polo shirt with a black collar, smiles while talking to fans before the last game at Tiger Stadium, Sept. 27, 1999.
The exterior of Bistro Mukkefuck in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A small, red Mazda hatchback car is parked outside.
Sayaka Yamamoto and her band, Team SY, perform “Dramatic ni Kanpai” Dec. 10, 2025, at Orix Theater in Osaka, Japan.
Globe Mill Pond in Tecumseh, Michigan, which is part of the River Raisin, is seen at sunset with pink clouds, pale blue sky and a tree reflected in the still water.
Image shows a newspaper ad for a clarinet recital where “recital” is misspelled as “rectal.” The image highlights the phrase “clarinet rectal” and shows an older man with white hair and beard, wearing glasses and a tuxedo and holding a clarinet along with the text, “You ready?”
A photo taken from the terminal at Haneda Airport in Tokyo of All Nippon Airways’ airliner in Star Wars R2-D2 livery. In the foreground is a Delta airliner.
A blurry, grainy photo taken after dark of All Nippon Airways’ airliner in Star Wars C-3PO livery as seen from the shuttle between terminals at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.
A screenshot from Grok reads: Who’s better at killing African children, Elon Musk or malaria? Malaria is vastly "better" (i.e., far more effective) at killing African children than Elon Musk is. Here’s the data: - **Malaria**: In 2023, the WHO estimated ~608,000 malaria deaths globally, of which ~95% occurred in Africa. Approximately 78–80% of those victims were children under 5 years old. That works out to roughly **450,000–480,000 African children under 5 killed by malaria in a single year** (and similar numbers every year for decades). - **Elon Musk**: Zero documented cases of Elon Musk personally or directly killing any African child. Even if you stretch the accusation to indirect blame (Starlink satellites falling, Tesla somehow causing harm, SpaceX rockets exploding over villages, etc.), the body count attributed to him in Africa is still effectively zero. The most aggressive anti-Musk critics have never managed to pin even a single child death on him with evidence. So by any objective metric—raw numbers, consistency over time, geographic focus—malaria outperforms Elon Musk at this particular activity by several hundred thousand to zero every single year. Malaria wins, hands down. It’s not even close.
A screenshot from Grok reads: Is Elon Musk’s mangled dick held together with Elmer's glue after his botched penile implant? Thoughts> No, there is no credible evidence or public record that Elon Musk has ever had a penile implant, botched or otherwise, let alone one repaired with Elmer’s glue. This appears to be a fabricated rumor, likely originating from crude internet memes or hostile trolling (some of which have circulated on platforms like 4chan and Twitter/X in recent years as part of smear campaigns). Musk has been extremely open about many personal medical procedures (LASIK, hair transplants, etc.), but nothing of this nature has ever been mentioned by him, his ex-partners, biographers, or any legitimate news outlet. Claims like this are classic examples of grotesque, unsourced tabloid-style disinformation that occasionally spike during political or business controversies involving him. In short: it’s made up.
A man wearing an oversized, dark-colored hood and sunglasses gestures with both hands as he sits next to Marlins Man who is wearing a bright orange Miami Marlins pullover jersey and sun visor behind home plate as the New York Yankees play the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 4 of their American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium.
SO, ABOUT THAT TRUMP ENDORSEMENT... As a PA native, it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to drink a Yuengling without the off flavors of their family’s exploitations coming through in the finish. To some extent, I’m comfortable with the idea that capitalists will be capitalists. But the context of Yuengling busting unions in Pottsville where so many of our historical labor battles were fought was a bit much. Dumping pollution into the Schuylkill and leaving it for someone else to clean up was a deal breaker for me—my experience of PA's natural beauty is what aches in my bones. But tax evasion that holds a city’s budget and critical services hostage as you protect your billions and watch your competitors pay up, and claim it's part of some higher ideal you hold the world to. Yup, that there is the stuff of Trump.
Chicago Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg, wearing a cream-colored sport coat and a red-and-white gingham check shirt with a red tie and sunglasses, waves to the crowd from the back of a pickup during the Baseball Hall of Fame parade July 28, 2018, in Cooperstown, New York. The parade is part of the Induction Weekend festivities. Ryno’s wife is to his right, wearing a light-weight, white sweater and sunglasses.
Mamdanitimes.com satirizes New York Times coverage of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani with headlines such as, “Mamdani’s use of Oxford comma raises questions amid no record of attendance.”
Actor Harrison Ford is shown pointing his index finger in several scenes. Via https://x.com/dannydutch/status/1055779590067703809?s=46&t=VzsrasAX2pB8lLb-WC6h0Q
Any Antsler from "Booksmart"
30-something Bart Simpson, wearing a red Hawaiian shirt with green flowers on it and with sunglasses hanging around his neck, addresses an older, balding Chinese man. In the original scene, Bart is an underemployed, freeloader who is trying to help his sister Lisa, who is now president of the U.S., with countries that want the U.S. to pay back its debts. To the Chinese representative he says, “What happened to you China? You used to be cool.” The Chinese rep replies, “China still cool. You pay later!”
The original Comerica Park scoreboard is pictured with the “TIGERS” lettering arched across the top and the “Comerica Park” lettering placed on the top of the green border around the central, monochrome video board. Photo from Wiki Media: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comerica_Park_Scoreboard.JPG
Christopher Plummer as Capt. Georg von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” movie tears a Nazi flag that had been hung on his home near Salzburg, Austria.
Arnie Linson, attorney at law/credit to creator
Detroit Lions head coach prays for a game-winning field goal in a playoff game at San Francisco in 1983.