Neil DeGrasse Tyson blinding Bob Lutz with the incontrovertible truth of science
Everyone’s favorite super cool scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, had what I found to be an interesting exchange with GM’s former chairman, Bob Lutz, on Bill Maher’s program a couple of days ago. The ball...
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The killing of Trayvon Martin, and what it signals for the future of America
By now, you’ve probably heard about Trayvon Martin, the 17 year old who was recently shot to death in a gated Florida community by an armed, criminally-overzealous-at-best member of a neighborhood...
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Guns don’t kill people… Hoodies kill people
Earlier this morning, in a segment on FOX News, self-important pseudo-journalist Geraldo Rivera suggested that it wasn’t just George Zimmerman who was responsible for the recent shooting death of...
View ArticleThe Michigan/Florida white supremacy exchange
We’ve apparently got a racist exchange program going on with Florida. We’ve got Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones here in Michigan this week, on loan from the sunshine state, and, according to reports...
View ArticleBob Sloan on the new slavery of the American prison factory system
When I flew into Providence a few weeks ago, to attend the Netroots Nation conference, I caught a taxi from the airport to the hotel with a fellow by the name of Bob Sloan. Bob, like me, had won one of...
View ArticleVoter Suppression efforts could determine the election
As I don’t think I’ve written about voter suppression efforts on the part of Republicans for a few months, I thought that it was time to revisit the subject.Here’s what’s happening in a nutshell. Like...
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For those of you who don’t leave the bed over the weekend, here’s the deal...
On Friday, the the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing that, for the first time since President Obama took office, unemployment had fallen below the 8% mark. And, as Romney had repeatedly...
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Election Night 2012… results, interpretation, and celebration
OK, I’ve got my beer and I’m in front of a television… let’s do this, America.8:13 I just talked with Growing Hope’s Amanda Edmonds. She heard from a friend of hers this morning that there was a...
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Who would you like to see dragged back to Ypsi/Arbor against their will?
For those of you who didn’t notice, I’ve added a link at the bottom of the right hand column. When clicked, it will take you to a page where I’ve started collecting all of our Ypsi/Arbor Exit...
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Talking boudin, crawfish and Burger King milkshakes with Southern Foodways...
I had the occasion a few months ago, when doing some research into “the ham of my people” (country ham with redeye gravy), to stumble onto the work of Amy C. Evans, the award-winning, Mississippi-based...
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Affirmative Action is dead in the United States… Now what?
The U.S. Supreme Court, as I’m sure you all know by now, upheld Michigan’s ban on affirmative action yesterday in a 6-2 decision, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting....
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Unconstitutional, scientifically unsound, fiscally irresponsible,...
In what seems like a pretty clear attempt to appease the far right and drive more of Michigan’s poor from the public assistance rolls, Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation on the day after Christmas...
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The contemporary pop-up art environments of Pop-X, combating poverty with...
This past weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, roughly speaking, was divided into three equally juicy, and satisfying, parts. First, we talked with Omari Rush about Ann Arbor’s upcoming...
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Like something straight out of North Korea, the USA Freedom Kids serenade...
I had an incredible post planned for last night, which I know you would have loved. But, two hours into writing it, I curled up next to my toasty warm laptop and fell asleep. So, here’s what I’ve got...
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Surprising absolutely no one, Michigan’s testing of welfare recipients for...
I posted the following on December 28, 2014, in a post titled “Unconstitutional, scientifically unsound, fiscally irresponsible, suspicion-based drug testing of welfare recipients comes to Michigan”....
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Is the charter school industry paying off Michigan politicians to avoid...
There’s a coordinated attempt afoot to dismantle America’s system of public education, and Michigan Republicans, for the past several years, have been at the forefront, passing laws to weaken our...
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Required Reading…“The white flight of Derek Black”
There’s an incredible story in today’s Washington Post about Derek Black, the son of Don Black, the man behind the white nationalist website site Stormfront, and how he came to renounce the racist...
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A message from the Alt State Department: yesterday’s press conference was not...
[This is absolutely, 100% true. Yesterday’s performance wasn’t intended to demonstrate competence, but to rally the base for the battle ahead. This administration will not be easy to remove from...
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The evolving acceptability of presidential golf
I know there are serious things that need to discussed right now, like Steve Bannon’s appearance at CPAC this afternoon, but, having hauled trash for the past two hours, I just can’t seem to muster...
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With our second “500 year” storm in three weeks gathering off the coast of...
As I write this, there are three hurricanes working their way westward across the Atlantic. They are; Katia, Irma, and Jose. Irma, the one that appears to be the most deadly of the three at the...
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